Gdy Pomorze nie pomoże, to pomoże może morze, a gdy morze nie pomoże to pomoże może Gdańsk.
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Translation
If Pomerania doesn't help, then maybe the sea will help, and if the sea doesn't help, then maybe Gdańsk will help.
Vocabulary
- Pomorze — Pomerania — a region of northern Poland
- pomóc — to help (future: pomoże)
- może — maybe, perhaps
- morze — sea
- Gdańsk — city on the Baltic coast of Poland
Grammar note
'Gdy' starts a conditional clause. 'Pomoże' is the third-person singular perfective future of 'pomóc'. The wordplay comes from 'Pomorze', 'pomoże', and 'morze', which share the root 'mor' (sea).
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