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    Translation

    Three speckled quail hens flew through three speckled tenement houses.

    Vocabulary

    • przylecieć — to fly through (perfective; past pl. non-virile: przeleciały)
    • pstry — speckled, motley (pl. non-virile: pstre)
    • przepiórzyce — quail hens (pl. of 'przepiórzyca')
    • kamienica — tenement house, stone building (pl. kamienice)

    Grammar note

    'Przez trzy pstre kamienice' uses the accusative after 'przez' (through). 'Trzy pstre' has the numeral 3 with non-virile accusative plural. 'Przeleciały' is third-person plural non-virile perfective past.

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