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  What it means

  “When there is rain on Walenty’s day, there will be a sharp frost yet.” A variant of the previous proverb, emphasising that the returning frost will be severe (ostry ; sharp, biting).

  Vocabulary

  • deszcz — rain
  • ostry — sharp, biting
  • mróz — frost
  • jeszcze — still, yet

  Grammar note

  'Ostry mróz' ; adjective in the nominative agreeing with 'mróz'. 'Będzie' + noun phrase forms a future predicate.

  Cultural context

  Another variant of the Saint Walenty weather proverb, stressing the severity of the returning cold.

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