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  What it means

  “For the lonely person, the world is a desert.” Loneliness makes even a full world feel empty and barren. Human connection gives life meaning.

  Vocabulary

  • samotny — lonely, solitary
  • świat — world
  • pustynia — desert, wilderness

  Grammar note

  'Samotnemu' is the dative singular of 'samotny', expressing the person for whom the world is a desert. The sentence has no verb — a nominal predicate construction.

  Intermediate

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