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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 24 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

En ninguna parte van a encontrar medias así.

Nowhere are you going to find stockings like that.”

Where it stands

The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.

—¿Están locos?

“Are you mad?

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
En enin, on, at (prep.)
ninguna ningunonone, no, not any (adj./pron.)
parte partepart; por todas partes — everywhere (n., f.)
van irto go (v.) — its preterite fue, fui, fueron is shared with ser, to be, so «se fue» is «he went» and «fue una noche larga» is «it was a long night»
a ato; at; on (prep.)
encontrar encontrarto find; encontrarse — to meet (v.)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)
así asíthus, so, like this (adv.)

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Cuentos de la selva, all eight tales · Horacio Quiroga

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