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Sentence 82 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Todos los pescados saben por qué es, y se burlan de ellos.

All the fish know why it is, and make fun of them.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Todos todoall, every; everything (adj./pron.)
los elthe (masculine)
pescados pescadofish (as caught or eaten) (n., m.)
saben saberto know (a fact); to know how to (v.)
por porby, for, through, because of (prep.)
qué quéwhat; how (interrog.)
es serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
y yand (conj.)
se sehimself, herself, themselves; one (reflexive pron.)
burlan burlarburlarse de — to make fun of (v.)
de deof, from (prep.)
ellos élhe, him; ella — she, her (subject pron.)

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