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  What it means

  “Saint Ambrose will bring more winter.” Saint Ambrose’s Day (7 December) was seen as a sign that the harshest winter weather was still to come.

  Vocabulary

  • święty — saint (masculine)
  • Ambroży — Ambrose
  • zima — winter
  • przysporzyć — to add more of, to bring an increase of

  Grammar note

  'Przysporzy' is third-person singular future of 'przysporzyć'. 'Zimy' is the genitive of 'zima', used as a partitive object.

  Cultural context

  Saint Ambrose's Day (7 December) falls in early Advent and was associated in Polish folk tradition with the onset of deep winter cold.

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