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  What it means

  However many frosts there are before St. Michael’s Day (29 September), there will be just as many in May. A folk weather proverb linking autumn frosts to spring frosts.

  Vocabulary

  • przymrozek — light frost
  • ile — how many
  • tyle — that many, so many

  Grammar note

  'Ile … tyle' — correlative pair expressing proportionality: 'as many … so many'.

  Cultural context

  One of many Polish calendar proverbs tied to saints' feast days, used to predict seasonal weather.

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