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  What it means

  “Seek work like bread, not like a knife.” Look for work as something that sustains and nourishes you, not as a weapon or a means to harm. Work should be pursued with honest, life-giving intent.

  Vocabulary

  • szukać — to seek, to look for
  • praca — work
  • chleb — bread
  • nóż — knife

  Grammar note

  'Pracy', 'chleba', and 'noża' are all genitive singular forms after 'szukaj' (seek), which governs the genitive case.

  Cultural context

  Bread is a central symbol of honest sustenance in Polish culture; the contrast with a knife underlines the moral dimension of how one approaches work.

  Intermediate

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