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  What it means

  After Saint Urban’s day, summer will come. A seasonal proverb marking May 25 (feast of Saint Urban) as the threshold after which summer weather can be expected.

  Vocabulary

  • Urban — Saint Urban (feast day: May 25)
  • lato — summer
  • nastać — to come, to set in

  Grammar note

  'Nastanie' is the third person singular future of 'nastać'. 'Po Urbanie' uses the locative after 'po' to mean 'after Urban's day'.

  Cultural context

  Saint Urban (May 25) is the patron of vintners and farmers. His feast day is a traditional marker of the transition from spring to summer in the Polish folk calendar.

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