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  What it means

  Rain on the first or second of July foretells forty days of rain. A folk weather proverb predicting a prolonged rainy period based on early July conditions.

  Vocabulary

  • deszcz — rain
  • zapowiedź — announcement, foretelling
  • czterdziestodniowy — forty-day-long

  Grammar note

  'Zapowiedzią' is the instrumental of 'zapowiedź', used predicatively: 'is a foretelling of'. 'Lipca pierwszego' — genitive of date.

  Cultural context

  Forty days of rain echoes the biblical flood narrative, giving this proverb a religious undertone alongside its practical agricultural purpose.

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