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  What it means

  “On Saint Jerome’s day, there’s good weather or there isn’t.” Tied to September 30th (St. Jerome), this wry proverb acknowledges the unpredictability of autumn weather — it might be fine, or it might not.

  Vocabulary

  • pogoda — weather, good weather
  • albo — or
  • ni ma — there isn't (dialectal/folk form of 'nie ma')

  Grammar note

  'Jej ni ma' uses the genitive 'jej' (of it) with the negated verb — standard Polish negation requires the genitive object.

  Cultural context

  'Ni ma' is a folk/dialectal contraction of 'nie ma', common in traditional proverbs and rural speech.

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