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Sentence 38 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

No van a encontrar medias así en ningún almacén.

You are not going to find stockings like that in any shop.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
No nono, not (adv.)
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.)
en enin, on, at (prep.)
ningún ningunonone, no, not any (adj./pron.)
almacén almacénstore, general shop (n., m.)

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