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  What it means

  “Nature draws the wolf back to the forest.” Old habits and instincts are hard to suppress. A person’s true nature will always reassert itself no matter how much they try to change.

  English equivalent

  You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.

  Vocabulary

  • natura — nature
  • ciągnąć — to pull, to draw
  • wilk — wolf
  • las — forest

  Grammar note

  'Ciągnie' is third person singular present of 'ciągnąć'. 'Wilka' is the accusative of 'wilk'. 'Do lasu' uses the genitive after 'do'.

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