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  What it means

  “When it rains on Saint Walenty’s day, the frosts will return yet.” Rain on Saint Valentine’s day (14 February) is a bad omen — cold weather and frost will come back before spring truly arrives.

  Vocabulary

  • deszcz — rain
  • mróz — frost
  • wrócić — to return
  • jeszcze — still, yet

  Grammar note

  'Mrozy wrócą' is the perfective future of 'wracać'. 'Jeszcze' here means 'yet again'.

  Cultural context

  Saint Walenty (Valentine) is 14 February. In Polish folk tradition this day was watched for weather signs predicting the end of winter.

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