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  What it means

  “When Saint Andrew arrives with snow, the snow lies in the field for a hundred days.” If it snows on Saint Andrew’s Day (November 30), expect snow to remain on the ground for a hundred days — well into late winter.

  Vocabulary

  • święty Andrzej — Saint Andrew (feast day: November 30)
  • śnieg — snow
  • przybyć — to arrive, to come
  • pole — field
  • leżeć — to lie, to remain

  Grammar note

  'Ze śniegiem przybieży' — 'ze śniegiem' is the instrumental, meaning 'with snow'. 'Przybieży' is the perfective future of 'przybyć'.

  Cultural context

  Saint Andrew's Day (Andrzejki) is also famous in Poland for folk fortune-telling traditions, especially among young women.

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