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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 28 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Ustedes están locos.—¿Quiénes son?

You are mad. Who are you?”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Ustedes ustedyou (polite) (pron.)
están estarto be — where a thing is, or how it is right now, against ser, what it is (v.)
locos locomad, crazy (adj.)
Quiénes quiénwho (interrog. pron.)
son serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)

Read «Las medias de los flamencos» in the room → Every word glossed where it stands, the English a tap away. The whole tale is free and asks for no account.

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