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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 65 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

¡Las medias que tienen son de víboras de coral!

The stockings they are wearing are made of coral snakes!”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Las elthe (masculine)
medias mediastocking (n., f.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
tienen tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
son serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
de deof, from (prep.)
víboras víborasnake, viper (n., f.)
coral coralcoral; víbora de coral — coral snake (n., m.)

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