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  What it means

  “On Saint Margaret’s day, a shock of grain will always stand in the field.” Around July 20th, the harvest is well underway and there will always be sheaves standing in the fields.

  Vocabulary

  • święta Małgorzata — Saint Margaret (feast day July 20)
  • kopa — shock (60 sheaves of grain stacked together)
  • pole — field
  • stanie — will stand

  Grammar note

  'Stanie' is the third-person singular future perfective of 'stanąć'. 'W polu' uses the locative of 'pole'.

  Cultural context

  A harvest proverb. A 'kopa' is a traditional unit of 60 sheaves. Saint Margaret's day (July 20) falls in the heart of the Polish harvest season.

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