Deszcz pluszcze w bluszczach puszczy, w bluszczach puszczy pluszcze deszcz.
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Translation
Rain splashes in the ivy of the forest, in the ivy of the forest splashes rain.
Vocabulary
- deszcz — rain
- pluszcze — splashes (3rd sg. present of 'pluszcze' / 'pluszczać')
- bluszcz — ivy (locative pl. bluszczach)
- puszcza — primeval forest, wilderness (genitive: puszczy)
Grammar note
'W bluszczach puszczy' — 'bluszczach' is locative plural after 'w' (in); 'puszczy' is genitive of 'puszcza' (of the forest). The chiastic structure reverses subject and verb: 'deszcz pluszcze' → 'pluszcze deszcz'.
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