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    Translation

    Turn a stone into flint, turn flint into a stone.

    Vocabulary

    • zamienić — to turn into, to transform (imperative: zamień)
    • kamień — stone (accusative: kamień)
    • krzemień — flint (accusative: krzemień)
    • przemienić — to transform, to change (imperative: przemień)

    Grammar note

    'Zamień X w Y' — 'w' + accusative expressing transformation ('turn X into Y'). Both 'kamień' and 'krzemień' are inanimate masculine — accusative equals nominative. The sentence reverses the transformation in the second clause.

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