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  What it means

  “True friends are known in hardship.” You only discover who your real friends are when times are tough. Fair-weather friends disappear when things go wrong.

  English equivalent

  A friend in need is a friend indeed.

  Vocabulary

  • prawdziwy — true, genuine
  • przyjaciel — friend
  • poznać — to get to know, to recognise
  • bieda — poverty, hardship, trouble

  Grammar note

  'Prawdziwych przyjaciół' is the genitive plural, used as the object of 'poznaje się'. 'W biedzie' is the locative of 'bieda'.

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