Zjedzony chleb bardzo ciężko odrabiać
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What it means
“Eaten bread is very hard to work off.” Once you have consumed what was given to you (food, money, favours), repaying the debt is difficult. A warning against taking things for granted or living off others.
Vocabulary
- zjedzony — eaten (past passive participle of zjeść)
- chleb — bread
- ciężko — hard, with difficulty
- odrabiać — to work off, to make up for
Grammar note
'Zjedzony chleb' is a nominative noun phrase with a past passive participle as adjective. 'Odrabiać' is an imperfective infinitive expressing ongoing difficulty.
Intermediate
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