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    Translation

    What does a hunter need to shoot a grouse dozing on a tree on a rainy day?

    Vocabulary

    • strzelec — hunter, marksman (dative: strzelcowi)
    • zestrzelić — to shoot down (verbal noun: zestrzelenie)
    • cietrzew — black grouse (genitive: cietrzewia)
    • drzemiący — dozing (present active participle)
    • dżdżysty — rainy, drizzly
    • drzewo — tree (locative: drzewie)

    Grammar note

    'Do zestrzelenia' takes the genitive after 'do' (for the purpose of). In 'cietrzewia drzemiącego', the participle 'drzemiącego' agrees with 'cietrzewia' in masculine genitive. 'W dżdżysty dzień' is accusative after 'w' for time.

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