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  What it means

  “Saint Catherine shows what weather January will cook up for us.” The weather on 25 November is said to foretell what January will be like.

  Vocabulary

  • pokazywać — to show
  • pogoda — weather
  • styczeń — January
  • zgotować — to cook up, to prepare (figurative)

  Grammar note

  'Pokazuje' and 'zgotuje' are third-person singular present and future forms. 'Jaką pogodę' uses the accusative after 'pokazuje'.

  Cultural context

  Saint Catherine's Day (25 November) was a key date in the Polish folk weather-prediction calendar.

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