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  What it means

  Family connections won’t put food on the table — you can’t eat kinship. A pragmatic saying about the limits of relying on relatives.

  Vocabulary

  • familia — family, relatives, kin
  • kasza — groats, porridge, grain dish
  • okrasić — to season, to enrich (food with fat or flavouring)

  Grammar note

  'Familią' is the instrumental of 'familia'. 'Kaszy' is the genitive of 'kasza' after negation. 'Okrasić' means to add fat or flavouring to a dish.

  Cultural context

  Rooted in peasant life where kasza was a staple. The proverb warns against expecting material support from extended family.

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