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  What it means

  “Appetite grows with eating.” The more you have or get, the more you want. Used to describe greed, ambition, or any desire that intensifies the more it is satisfied rather than diminishing.

  English equivalent

  The more you have, the more you want.

  Vocabulary

  • apetyt — appetite
  • rosnąć — to grow, to increase
  • w miarę — in proportion to, as
  • jedzenie — eating, food

  Grammar note

  'W miarę + genitive' is a fixed prepositional phrase meaning 'in proportion to' or 'as'. Here 'jedzenia' is the genitive of 'jedzenie'.

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