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  What it means

  Literally “in olden times.” Means in days of old, in former times — used nostalgically or in storytelling to evoke a distant past.

  Vocabulary

  • dawny — old / former / of old
  • czasy — times (plural of 'czas')

  Grammar note

  'Dawnymi czasy' uses the instrumental plural — a common construction for expressing time periods in Polish.

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