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  What it means

  “Bread and water — no hunger.” Simple food is enough to keep hunger away. A proverb about making do with little and appreciating basic sustenance.

  English equivalent

  Bread and water keep body and soul together.

  Vocabulary

  • chleb — bread
  • woda — water
  • głód — hunger

  Grammar note

  'Nie ma głoda' uses the genitive of negation — 'there is no hunger'.

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