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  What it means

  “In February, if thunder comes from the eastern side, there will be great storms and winds that year.” Thunder from the east in February is an omen of a stormy year ahead.

  Vocabulary

  • zagrzmi — it will thunder (third-person singular future of grzmieć)
  • wschodni — eastern
  • bok — side, flank
  • burza — storm
  • walny — great, mighty

  Grammar note

  'Od wschodniego boku' uses the genitive after 'od'. 'Walne' is an archaic/literary adjective meaning 'great, full-scale'.

  Cultural context

  Folk meteorology based on the direction of thunder was widely used in rural Poland to predict the agricultural year.

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