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Sentence 64 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Los flamencos han matado a nuestras hermanas y se han puesto sus cueros como medias!

The flamingos have killed our sisters and put on their skins as stockings!

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Los elthe (masculine)
flamencos flamencoflamingo (n., m.)
han haberto have (auxiliary); hay — there is, there are (v.)
matado matarto kill (v.)
a ato; at; on (prep.)
nuestras nuestroour (poss. adj.)
hermanas hermanobrother; hermana — sister (n., m.)
y yand (conj.)
se sehimself, herself, themselves; one (reflexive pron.)
puesto ponerto put, place; ponerse — to put on, become (v.)
sus suhis, her, their, your (poss. adj.)
cueros cuerohide, skin (n., m.)
como comoas, like; since (conj./adv.)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)

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