Fortuna często rozumowi przeczy
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What it means
Fortune often contradicts reason — luck does not follow logic. Things don’t always go the way common sense would predict.
Vocabulary
- fortuna — fortune, luck, fate
- rozum — reason, mind, sense
- przeczyć — to contradict, to deny
Grammar note
'Rozumowi' is the dative of 'rozum'. 'Przeczyć' governs the dative: 'przeczyć czemuś' (to contradict something).
Cultural context
Reflects a fatalistic strand in Polish folk philosophy — that fate is unpredictable and beyond rational control.
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