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  What it means

  Literally “to write off as a loss.” Means to give up on something or someone, to consider them beyond saving or not worth further effort — the Polish equivalent of “to write something off.”

  Vocabulary

  • spisać — to write off / to record (perfective)
  • strata — loss
  • na straty — as losses / to losses

  Grammar note

  'Na straty' uses the accusative plural after the preposition 'na'. The perfective 'spisać' implies a final, completed decision.

  Cultural context

  Originally an accounting term — writing a bad debt off the books. Now used broadly for any person, project, or relationship deemed a lost cause.

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