What does the text on this bag mean? My dad keeps insisting that it means “jump to buy flip flops” but i am skeptical of google translate’s abilities

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  3. First thing is that žabka means small frog or one flip flop. In this case, Žabka is the name of the shop. And second, when Czechs are saying they are going to jump for something, it means they will go quickly get something.

    So the correct translation would be something like:
    Žabka (name of the store)
    Come quickly shopping

  4. Žabka is a name of the convenience store.

    Skočit nakoupit, literally translates to “jump into shopping”. But the jump to is also used as “to go somewhere” and nakoupit just means “to buy something”.

    TLDR: it means go shopping, and Žabka is the store name.

  5. As was mentioned, žabka is the name of the convenience store; however, in this case, their name means (in translation) a little frog. Their color is green, the older logo looks like a frog’s eye, and they had a little frog in their logo too. And how did frogs become famous? Yes – because of jumping. Thus, it is a little game with the words – A little frog, let’s jump for shopping.

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    Edit: Today is the store a part of the Tesco group; however, it is originally from Poland.

    https://preview.redd.it/j5aima1b433a1.png?width=438&format=png&auto=webp&s=82e1174c084396f5954aebefdd4b49b07412de04

  7. “little/cute frog”

    “Hop-in to do some shopin’ ”

    I am very happy how i made the interpretation rhyme in english heh.

  9. That’s one of the things that gets lost in translation. It works in Czech, it won’t in English.

    As others said, žabka is the name of the store and also means frog in Czech. Frogs jump. The other line could be vaguely translated to “jump into shopping” but actually it is more precisely like “go shopping”.

    So it’s like a word game where the name of the shop is used as animal in this regard and the second line picks up on that.

  10. Žabka = name of the shop, also means little frog OR flip flop.

    Skočte si nakoupit = literally “jump in to shop”, hence the frog pun. A good translation could be “hop out for a quick shop” or something. The idea is that you can do some emergency quick shopping if you’re missing basic groceries. I tried to keep the frog jump pun, but I don’t think it works.

  11. OK I’m a Pole.

    TIL that biggest Polsih franchise “Żabka” in Czech is not a frog but FlipFlop.

    The more funnier thing is that they used to had virtual competition of “Fresh” shops (same holding) so they were called Fresh/Żabka. Now it makes more sense with “Fresh/FlipFlops” rotfl

  12. Skočit means either jump or to do something quickly.

    Skočit si nakoupit means a quick shopping for few things.

    Žabka is a small store not many people would do their entire grocery shopping there but it’s convenient when you forget to buy a bread or something.

  13. You guys have Żabka too? That’s great.

    Edit: it turns out those are different stores. The ones in your country are tesco’s idea.

  16. “Žabka (name of the shop)
    Come for a quick shop”

    Žabka is a chain of small convenience stores often conveniently located with all the essentials in stock

  18. Sort of clever joke.
    “Frog, jump to buy something” (frog is usually jumping and quick shopping is by slang “skočit nakoupit”)

  23. Žabka means little frog, and the word is used for flip flops too (probably because of the sound they make when wet).

    Skočte si nakoupit means go for a quick shopping.

    Skočit (somewhere) means to go somewhere real quick. It also means to jump.

    You can jump to a doctor (Skočit si k doktorovi) – go there just for a quick visit. Jump to a toilet (Skočit si na záchod) – to say that you won’t take a long time there.

    The bag has nothing to do with flip flops I’m afraid.

  26. Worth mentioning, DeepL translates this almost correctly as “Frog, go shopping” despite only inputting “žabka skočte si nakoupit”

  28. ŽABKA means FROG a name of that company
    And skoč si nakoupit means jump to buy but you wont understand that in english and i dont know why is your dad so stupid

  31. “Žabka” is the namd of the shop, it means a small frog, or a flip flop. “Skočte si nakoupit” means “Jump to buy something” (in 2nd person in prular “You”), but jump in czech also has a meaning of “Go somewhere real quick”. So they’re basically playing with words, because frogs jump, and the shop is named Frog.
    Edit: As one guy said “Hop in for some shoppin’!” would work well as a translation of “Skočte si nakoupit”

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