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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»


Sentence 81 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Esta es la historia de los flamencos, que antes tenían las patas blancas y ahora las tienen coloradas.

This is the story of the flamingos, who once had white legs and now have red ones.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Esta estethis, this one (dem. adj./pron.)
es serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
la elthe (masculine)
historia historiastory; history (n., f.)
de deof, from (prep.)
flamencos flamencoflamingo (n., m.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
antes antesbefore, earlier (adv.)
tenían tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
patas patapaw, leg of an animal (n., f.)
blancas blancowhite (adj.)
y yand (conj.)
ahora ahoranow (adv.)
coloradas coloradored, ruddy (adj., the usual River Plate word for red)

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