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    What it means

    Literally “on the deathbed.” Means at the point of death, in one’s final moments — “on one’s deathbed.”

    Vocabulary

    • łoże — bed (formal/literary)
    • śmierć — death

    Grammar note

    'Na łożu śmierci' uses the locative of 'łoże śmierci' after 'na'. 'Śmierci' is genitive of 'śmierć' — genitive of relation.

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