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  What it means

  As you make your bed, so you will sleep in it. Your outcomes are the direct result of your own actions and choices.

  English equivalent

  As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

  Vocabulary

  • pościelić — to make the bed
  • wyspać się — to sleep well, to get enough sleep

  Grammar note

  'Pościelesz' is second person singular perfective future. 'Wyśpisz się' is reflexive perfective future.

  Cultural context

  One of the most commonly used Polish proverbs, applicable to any situation where consequences follow from one's own decisions.

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