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  What it means

  As Saint Bartholomew’s Day is, such is the hope for autumn. The weather on 24 August predicts what the coming autumn will be like.

  Vocabulary

  • dzień — day
  • Bartłomiej — Saint Bartholomew (feast day 24 August)
  • jesień — autumn
  • nadzieja — hope

  Grammar note

  'Takiej jesieni nadzieja' — 'jesieni' is genitive singular of 'jesień'. The correlative 'jaki… takiej…' links the feast day to the season.

  Cultural context

  Saint Bartholomew's Day (24 August) is a key date in the Polish folk weather calendar, marking the transition from summer to autumn.

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