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Sentence 26 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

—¡Tán-tán!— Tiene medias coloradas, blancas y negras?

“Rat-a-tat! Have you red, white and black stockings?”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Tán-tán tán-tánrat-a-tat, the sound of knocking (onomatopoeia)
Tiene tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)
coloradas coloradored, ruddy (adj., the usual River Plate word for red)
blancas blancowhite (adj.)
y yand (conj.)
negras negroblack (adj.)

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