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    Translation

    In Pszczyna, something ran over a mouse on the rail — it even screeched.

    Vocabulary

    • Pszczyna — a town in Silesia (locative: Pszczynie)
    • szyna — rail, track (locative: szynie)
    • przejechać — to run over (past neuter: przejechało — impersonal)
    • — so much that, even (intensifier)
    • zazgrzytać — to screech, to grate (past neuter: zazgrzytało)

    Grammar note

    'Przejechało' and 'zazgrzytało' are both neuter past — used impersonally here (no explicit subject). 'Mysz' is accusative. 'Aż zazgrzytało' — 'aż' + clause expresses a result so extreme it surprises: 'it even screeched'.

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