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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 9 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Pero las que estaban hermosísimas eran las víboras.

But the ones who were most beautiful were the snakes.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Pero perobut (conj.)
las elthe (masculine)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
estaban estarto be — where a thing is, or how it is right now, against ser, what it is (v.)
hermosísimas hermosobeautiful (adj.)
eran serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
víboras víborasnake, viper (n., f.)

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