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  What it means

  “Saint Catherine ties Advent’s knot, and Saint Andrew tightens it.” Catherine (25 November) begins Advent and Andrew (30 November) reinforces it — together they frame the opening of the pre-Christmas season.

  Vocabulary

  • zawięzywać — to tie, to knot, to bind
  • święty — saint (masculine)
  • Andrzej — Andrew
  • poprawiać — to correct, to tighten, to improve

  Grammar note

  'Zawięzuje' and 'poprawuje' are third-person singular present forms. The conjunction 'a' here means 'and' with a slight contrastive nuance.

  Cultural context

  Saint Andrew's Day (30 November) is the eve of Advent in the liturgical calendar. This proverb pairs the two November saints as joint guardians of the Advent season.

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