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  What it means

  When the mother’s spirit is gone (she dies), the children scatter like down. A proverb about how a mother holds the family together — once she is gone, the children drift apart.

  Vocabulary

  • duch — spirit, soul; here: life, breath
  • puch — down, fluff; here: scatter like fluff

  Grammar note

  'Jak' introduces a conditional/temporal clause. 'Z matki duch' — genitive 'matki' after 'z' in the sense of 'from the mother'.

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