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Sentence 35 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Los flamencos recorrieron así todos los almacenes, y de todas partes los echaban por locos.

The flamingos went round all the shops that way, and everywhere they were thrown out as madmen.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Los elthe (masculine)
flamencos flamencoflamingo (n., m.)
recorrieron recorrerto go over, travel through (v.)
así asíthus, so, like this (adv.)
todos todoall, every; everything (adj./pron.)
almacenes almacénstore, general shop (n., m.)
y yand (conj.)
de deof, from (prep.)
partes partepart; por todas partes — everywhere (n., f.)
echaban echarto throw, throw out; echarse — to lie down, set about (v.)
por porby, for, through, because of (prep.)
locos locomad, crazy (adj.)

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