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One sentence of «La tortuga gigante»


Sentence 11 of 19 · La tortuga gigante, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Comía pájaros y bichos del monte, que cazaba con la escopeta, y después comía frutas.

He ate birds and forest creatures that he shot with his gun, and afterwards he ate fruit.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Comía comerto eat (v.)
pájaros pájarobird (n., m.)
y yand (conj.)
bichos bichocreature, small animal, bug (n., m.)
del delof the, from the (de + el)
monte monteforest, wild country (n., m., the River Plate word for the bush)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
cazaba cazarto hunt (v.)
con conwith (prep.)
la elthe (masculine)
escopeta escopetashotgun (n., f.)
después despuésafterwards, then; después de — after (adv./prep.)
frutas frutafruit (n., f.)

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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