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  What it means

  “Rare is the feast day of Saint Dorothy without frost, blizzard, or sleet.” Saint Dorothy’s day, 6 February, almost always brings hard winter weather. It is a calendar proverb about early-February cold.

  Vocabulary

  • rzadki — rare
  • mróz — frost
  • zawieja — blizzard, snowstorm
  • słota — sleet, foul wet weather

  Grammar note

  'Bez mrozu, zawiei, słoty' uses the genitive case after 'bez' (without). All three nouns are in the genitive singular.

  Cultural context

  Saint Dorothy, Dorota in Polish, is celebrated on 6 February. Farmers used such calendar proverbs to predict the season's weather.

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