Jak gdyby nigdy nic
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What it means
Literally “as if nothing had ever happened.” Describes someone acting completely normally after something significant or awkward — brazening it out, carrying on as if nothing occurred.
Vocabulary
- gdyby — as if, if (conditional)
- nigdy — never
- nic — nothing
Grammar note
'Jak gdyby' introduces a counterfactual — 'as if it were the case that never anything.' A fixed phrase used as an adverb.
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