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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 29 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

—Somos los flamencos— respondieron ellos.

“We are the flamingos,” they answered.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Somos serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
los elthe (masculine)
flamencos flamencoflamingo (n., m.)
respondieron responderto answer, reply (v.)
ellos élhe, him; ella — she, her (subject pron.)

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