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  What it means

  “An apple will never fly far from the apple tree.” A negated future variant stressing the impossibility of straying far from one’s origins.

  English equivalent

  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

  Vocabulary

  • nigdy — never
  • jabłko — apple
  • jabłoń — apple tree
  • odlecieć — to fly away

  Grammar note

  'Nie odleci' is the negated future perfective. 'Od jabłoni' is genitive after 'od'.

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