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  What it means

  “Much water in February, in summer even the calf is hungry.” A variant of the same proverb: a rainy February means a lean summer, with even young cattle going hungry.

  Vocabulary

  • woda — water
  • wiele — much, a lot
  • głodny — hungry
  • cielę — calf

  Grammar note

  'I cielę' adds 'even the calf' with the particle 'i' used for emphasis ('even'). Compare with the variant using 'nawet cielę'.

  Cultural context

  A close variant of 'W lutym wody wiele – w lecie głodne nawet cielę', differing only in the final clause.

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