Question	Answer
it was /there was	było
there were	były
once	raz
there was(were) once	było raz
four	cztery
four - coll. (Collective numbers are used before nouns denoting people of mixed sex, personal and animate neuter nouns (of which there are few), and non-masculine personal pluralia tantum. They are used with nouns in the gen., nom., acc. and voc.	czworo
children	dzieci
four children (mixed gender)	czworo dzieci
Once there were four children	Było raz czworo dzieci
Peter	Piotr
Susan	Zuzanna
Once there were four children: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.	Było raz czworo dzieci: Piotr, Zuzanna, Edmund i Lucja.

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