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  What it means

  Literally “a goat only dies once.” Expresses a “you only live once” or “just do it” attitude — accepting risk because the worst can happen only once.

  Vocabulary

  • raz — once / one time
  • koza — goat
  • śmierć — death

  Grammar note

  'Kozie' is the dative of 'koza' — 'death comes to the goat.' An impersonal dative-subject construction with no explicit verb.

  Cultural context

  A very colloquial, often humorous phrase used to justify bold or reckless decisions.

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