Święta Katarzyna pokazuje, jaką pogodę nam styczeń zgotuje
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What it means
“Saint Catherine shows what weather January will cook up for us.” The weather on 25 November is said to foretell what January will be like.
Vocabulary
- pokazywać — to show
- pogoda — weather
- styczeń — January
- zgotować — to cook up, to prepare (figurative)
Grammar note
'Pokazuje' and 'zgotuje' are third-person singular present and future forms. 'Jaką pogodę' uses the accusative after 'pokazuje'.
Cultural context
Saint Catherine's Day (25 November) was a key date in the Polish folk weather-prediction calendar.
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