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  What it means

  “When Saint Paul’s day is bright, after the harvest it will also be crowded.” A weather proverb: clear weather on the feast of Saint Paul (25 January) predicts a good harvest, meaning the barn will be full and crowded with grain.

  Vocabulary

  • jasno — bright, clear (of weather)
  • żniwa — harvest
  • ciasno — crowded, tight (here: full)

  Grammar note

  'Gdy' introduces a conditional/temporal clause. 'Po żniwach' uses the locative plural after 'po'.

  Cultural context

  Saint Paul's feast day (25 January) was one of many calendar saints' days used in Polish folk meteorology to predict the coming season.

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