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  What it means

  “Saint Lucy announces what weather January will bring.” The weather on 13 December is said to foretell January’s conditions.

  Vocabulary

  • głosić — to announce, to proclaim
  • pogoda — weather
  • styczeń — January
  • przynosić — to bring

  Grammar note

  'Głosi' and 'przynosi' are third-person singular present forms. 'Jaką pogodę' uses the accusative.

  Cultural context

  Saint Lucy's Day (13 December) was an important weather-prediction date in the Polish folk calendar, associated with the onset of deep winter.

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