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Sentence 5 of 19 · La tortuga gigante, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

—Usted es amigo mío, y es un hombre bueno y trabajador.

“You are a friend of mine, and you are a good, hard-working man.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Usted ustedyou (polite) (pron.)
es serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
amigo amigofriend (n., m.)
mío míomine, my (poss. pron.)
y yand (conj.)
un una, an, one (indef. art.)
hombre hombreman (n., m.)
bueno buenogood; well then, all right (adj./interj.)
trabajador trabajadorhard-working; worker (adj./n., m.)

Read «La tortuga gigante» in the room → Every word glossed where it stands, the English a tap away. This scene asks for no account.

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