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Sentence 58 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Pero los flamencos bailaban y bailaban sin cesar, aunque estaban cansadísimos y ya no podían más.

But the flamingos danced and danced without stopping, although they were dead tired and could go on no longer.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Pero perobut (conj.)
los elthe (masculine)
flamencos flamencoflamingo (n., m.)
bailaban bailarto dance (v.)
y yand (conj.)
sin sinwithout (prep.)
cesar cesarto cease; sin cesar — without stopping (v.)
aunque aunquealthough, even though (conj.)
estaban estarto be — where a thing is, or how it is right now, against ser, what it is (v.)
cansadísimos cansadotired (adj.)
ya yaalready, now; ya no — no longer (adv.)
no nono, not (adv.)
podían poderto be able, can (v.)
más másmore, most (adv.)

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