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One sentence of «La tortuga gigante»


Sentence 10 of 19 · La tortuga gigante, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Vivía solo en el bosque, y él mismo se cocinaba.

He lived alone in the wood, and cooked for himself.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Vivía vivirto live (v.)
solo soloalone; single (adj.)
en enin, on, at (prep.)
el elthe (masculine)
bosque bosquewood, forest (n., m.)
y yand (conj.)
él élhe, him; ella — she, her (subject pron.)
mismo mismosame; himself, itself (adj.)
se sehimself, herself, themselves; one (reflexive pron.)
cocinaba cocinarto cook (v.)

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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