Day 143: The Permit for Plot 112
In an apple orchard outside a village near Opat贸w, a fruit farmer (A) walks up to a young man (B) who is going over the ground between the trees with a metal detector.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Dzie艅 dobry, czego pan szuka z tym wykrywaczem w moim sadzie? Do cudzego sadu nie wchodzi si臋 bez pytania.
Afternoon. What are you looking for in my orchard with that detector? You don't go into someone else's orchard without asking.
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B
Dzie艅 dobry, wszystko legalnie. Mam pozwolenie wojew贸dzkiego konserwatora zabytk贸w, wydane po uzyskaniu zgody w艂a艣ciciela gruntu.
Good afternoon, it's all legal. I have a permit from the provincial heritage conservator, issued once the landowner had given his consent.
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A
Sad jest m贸j, a 偶adnej zgody nie podpisywa艂em. Prosz臋 pokaza膰 to pozwolenie.
The orchard is mine, and I never signed any consent. Show me that permit, please.
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B
Prosz臋 bardzo: poszukiwania na dzia艂ce numer sto dwana艣cie, w celu rozpoznania dawnej osady, zgoda pana Kwiatkowskiego.
Here you are: a search on plot number one hundred and twelve, for the purpose of surveying a former settlement, with Mr Kwiatkowski's consent.
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A
Kwiatkowski to m贸j szwagier, a jego sad zaczyna si臋 za tamt膮 miedz膮. Pan od godziny chodzi po moim.
Kwiatkowski is my brother-in-law, and his orchard starts past that boundary strip. You've been walking round mine for an hour.
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B
Kurcz臋, pomyli艂em dzia艂ki. Ale ju偶 co艣 tu wykopa艂em: chyba boratynk臋, miedziany szel膮g z czas贸w Jana Kazimierza.
Oh no, I've mixed up the plots. But I've already dug something up here: a boratynka, I think, a copper shilling from the time of John Casimir.
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A
Skoro znalaz艂 j膮 pan w moim sadzie, to chyba nale偶y do mnie, a nie do pana?
Since you found it in my orchard, it belongs to me and not to you, surely?
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B
Ani do pana, ani do mnie: takie znaleziska nale偶膮 do Skarbu Pa艅stwa. Zg艂asza si臋 je niezw艂ocznie konserwatorowi i to w艂a艣nie zrobi臋.
Neither to you nor to me: finds like this belong to the State Treasury. You report them to the conservator without delay, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
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A
Dobrze, podpisz臋 panu zgod臋, ale pod jednym warunkiem: najpierw poszuka pan kluczyk贸w do ci膮gnika, kt贸re zgubi艂em tu przy zbieraniu jab艂ek.
All right, I'll sign a consent for you, but on one condition: first you'll look for the tractor keys I lost here while picking apples.
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