Po Urbanie lato nastanie
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What it means
After Saint Urban’s day, summer will come. A seasonal proverb marking May 25 (feast of Saint Urban) as the threshold after which summer weather can be expected.
Vocabulary
- Urban — Saint Urban (feast day: May 25)
- lato — summer
- nastać — to come, to set in
Grammar note
'Nastanie' is the third person singular future of 'nastać'. 'Po Urbanie' uses the locative after 'po' to mean 'after Urban's day'.
Cultural context
Saint Urban (May 25) is the patron of vintners and farmers. His feast day is a traditional marker of the transition from spring to summer in the Polish folk calendar.
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