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  What it means

  Literally “as long as I live / in all my life.” Used to emphasise that something is unprecedented in one’s experience — “never in my life,” “in all my born days.” E.g. “jak żyję, czegoś takiego nie widziałem” — I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

  Vocabulary

  • żyć — to live

  Grammar note

  'Jak żyję' is a temporal clause used as a fixed intensifier — first person singular present of 'żyć'.

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