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Sentence 62 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Y vieron qué eran aquellas medias, y lanzaron un silbido que se oyó desde la otra orilla del Paraná.

And they saw what those stockings were, and let out a hiss that was heard from the far bank of the Paraná.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Y yand (conj.)
vieron verto see (v.)
qué quéwhat; how (interrog.)
eran serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
aquellas aquelthat, that one over there (dem. adj./pron.)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)
lanzaron lanzarto hurl, let out; lanzarse — to fling oneself (v.)
un una, an, one (indef. art.)
silbido silbidowhistle (n., m.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
se sehimself, herself, themselves; one (reflexive pron.)
oyó oírto hear (v.)
desde desdefrom, since (prep.)
la elthe (masculine)
otra otroother, another (adj./pron.)
orilla orillabank, shore, edge (n., f.)
del delof the, from the (de + el)
Paraná Paranáthe Paraná, the great river (place name)

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