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  What it means

  “When Saint Paul’s day is bright, after the harvest the barn will be crowded.” A variant of the previous proverb, specifying that the barn (stodoła) will be packed full — a sign of an abundant harvest.

  Vocabulary

  • jasno — bright, clear (of weather)
  • żniwa — harvest
  • stodoła — barn
  • ciasno — crowded, tight

  Grammar note

  'W stodole' is the locative of 'stodoła'. 'Po żniwach' uses the locative plural after 'po'.

  Cultural context

  A fuller variant of the Saint Paul weather proverb, making explicit that the barn will be the crowded place.

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