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  What it means

  “A clear New Year means a bountiful harvest.” A folk weather proverb: if New Year’s Day is sunny and clear, the year’s harvest will be rich and plentiful.

  Vocabulary

  • rok — year
  • pogodny — clear, sunny, fair (of weather)
  • zbiór — harvest, crop
  • dorodny — fine, plentiful, well-grown

  Grammar note

  'Będzie dorodny' is the future tense of 'być' + predicate adjective. 'Pogodny' and 'dorodny' rhyme, giving the proverb its mnemonic quality.

  Cultural context

  Like many Polish weather proverbs, this one is tied to the agricultural calendar and the belief that conditions at key dates predict the season ahead.

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