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  What it means

  Whoever is harmed by bread will be helped by a stick. Some people only respond to harsh treatment.

  Vocabulary

  • chleb — bread
  • zaszkodzić — to harm, to do damage
  • kij — stick, rod
  • pomóc — to help

  Grammar note

  'Komu... temu' is a correlative dative construction: 'to whom X, to that one Y'. More direct than the 'a komu' variant.

  Cultural context

  Variant of the same proverb with a slightly harsher tone — the 'temu' (to that one) makes the conclusion more pointed.

  Intermediate

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