No. 13,557 in Polish
pionków
"Pawn's" or "of pawns" (possessive/plural form of "pionek," meaning a pawn in chess or a figurative pawn).
In a sentence
Na planszy szachowej było ustawionych ośmiu pionków.
On the chessboard, eight pawns were set up.
Here, 'pionków' refers to chess pawns as game pieces, highlighting its use in a game context.
Oni czują się jak pionki w globalnej grze politycznej.
They feel like pawns in a global political game.
In this sentence, 'pionki' is used metaphorically to describe being used by others as expendable elements in a large-scale situation.
Kiedyś to wszystko były pola pełne pionków kukurydzy.
These used to be fields full of cornstalks.
Here, 'pionków' metaphorically describes rows of cornstalks, resembling the vertical arrangement of pawns, showing a symbolic usage based on shape.
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