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Sentence 17 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

—Yo sé lo que vamos a hacer.

“I know what we are going to do.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Yo yoI (subject pron.)
saberto know (a fact); to know how to (v.)
lo loit, him; the (neuter article) (pron./art.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
vamos irto go (v.) — its preterite fue, fui, fueron is shared with ser, to be, so «se fue» is «he went» and «fue una noche larga» is «it was a long night»
a ato; at; on (prep.)
hacer hacerto do, make (v.)

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