Okay, so let's imagine you have two special kinds of shapes called abelian varieties. They're like really fancy puzzles made out of points and lines that mathematicians like to study.
Now, if you take one of these abelian varieties and you flip it over, it becomes a new kind of abelian variety that's called the "dual" abelian variety. It's sort of like how if you flip a puzzle piece over, it's still the same piece but it looks different.
The dual abelian variety is special because it's like a mirror image of the original abelian variety. Everything that was on the left side of the original abelian variety is now on the right side of the dual abelian variety, and everything that was up high is now down low.
When mathematicians talk about dual abelian varieties, they're usually trying to figure out how the original abelian variety and its mirror image are related to each other. This can help them solve complicated math problems and understand the properties of these shapes better.