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  What it means

  Literally “karma comes back.” Means what goes around comes around — your actions, good or bad, will return to you. Used both seriously and ironically.

  Vocabulary

  • karma — karma
  • wracać — to return, to come back

  Grammar note

  'Wraca' is third person singular present of 'wracać' — imperfective, describing a general truth.

  Cultural context

  A modern borrowing from Eastern philosophy, now fully integrated into Polish everyday speech — especially popular among younger speakers.

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