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  What it means

  “A lazy youth makes for a tearful old age.” Those who are idle and irresponsible when young will suffer and regret it in old age. A call to diligence and foresight.

  English equivalent

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

  Vocabulary

  • młodość — youth
  • leniwy — lazy
  • starość — old age
  • płaczliwy — tearful, given to weeping

  Grammar note

  Both clauses are nominal sentences (no verb), with adjectives 'leniwa' and 'płaczliwa' as predicates agreeing with their feminine nouns.

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