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  What it means

  Literally “whoever is alive.” Means everyone, all people present — “everyone and their mother,” “every living soul,” “all and sundry.” E.g. “uciekali kto żyw” — everyone who could ran away.

  Vocabulary

  • żyw — alive (short adjective form of żywy)

  Grammar note

  'Żyw' is the short (predicative) form of 'żywy' — used only in fixed expressions. 'Kto żyw' functions as an indefinite pronoun meaning 'whoever is alive / everyone'.

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