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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 40 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Mi cuñada, la lechuza, tiene medias así.

My sister-in-law, the owl, has stockings like that.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Mi mimy (poss. adj.)
cuñada cuñadasister-in-law (n., f.)
la elthe (masculine)
lechuza lechuzaowl (n., f.)
tiene tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)
así asíthus, so, like this (adv.)

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