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  What it means

  Literally “to give in lease/rent.” Means to hand something over completely, to give something away for someone else to exploit or use freely — often with a sense of losing control over it.

  Vocabulary

  • oddać — to give away, to hand over
  • pacht — lease, rent (archaic)

  Cultural context

  Pacht is an old loanword from German (Pacht = lease), common in historical Polish.

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