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  What it means

  “Much water in February — in summer even the calf goes hungry.” A wet, rainy February predicts a poor summer harvest, leaving even livestock without enough to eat.

  Vocabulary

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

  Grammar note

  'Wody wiele' uses the genitive of quantity ('wody' is genitive of 'woda'). 'Głodne cielę' is a nominative predicate.

  Cultural context

  Reflects the agricultural concern that excessive winter rain saturates the soil and damages spring crops.

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