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  What it means

  Frequent rains in April foretell an abundant fruit harvest. A folk agricultural proverb about spring rainfall and its effect on crops.

  Vocabulary

  • deszcz — rain
  • częsty — frequent
  • wróżyć — to foretell, to augur
  • owoc — fruit

  Grammar note

  'Wróżą' — third-person plural present of 'wróżyć'. 'Że … będzie dużo' — subordinate clause with genitive 'owoców' after 'dużo'.

  Cultural context

  April showers bring May flowers — the Polish folk tradition made similar connections between spring rain and summer abundance.

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