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  What it means

  “When October holds warmth, winter is usually frosty.” A warm October is a folk sign that the coming winter will be cold and harsh ; nature compensating for the mild autumn.

  Vocabulary

  • październik — October
  • ciepło — warmth; warmly
  • trzymać — to hold, to keep
  • mroźny — frosty, freezing

  Grammar note

  'Ciepło trzyma' ; 'ciepło' used adverbially. 'Mroźna bywa zima' ; 'bywa' (habitual present of 'być') conveys a recurring pattern.

  Cultural context

  This proverb reflects the folk belief in seasonal compensation ; a mild autumn foretells a severe winter.

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