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  What it means

  “Eaten bread is very hard to work off.” Once you have consumed what was given to you (food, money, favours), repaying the debt is difficult. A warning against taking things for granted or living off others.

  Vocabulary

  • zjedzony — eaten (past passive participle of zjeść)
  • chleb — bread
  • ciężko — hard, with difficulty
  • odrabiać — to work off, to make up for

  Grammar note

  'Zjedzony chleb' is a nominative noun phrase with a past passive participle as adjective. 'Odrabiać' is an imperfective infinitive expressing ongoing difficulty.

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