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One sentence of «La tortuga gigante»
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.
Where it stands
The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.
Vivía solo en el bosque, y él mismo se cocinaba.
He lived alone in the wood, and cooked for himself.
He slept under the trees, and when the weather turned bad he built himself a shelter of palm leaves in five minutes, and there he sat and smoked, very content in the middle of the wood that roared with wind and rain.
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Comía | comer | to eat (v.) |
| pájaros | pájaro | bird (n., m.) |
| y | y | and (conj.) |
| bichos | bicho | creature, small animal, bug (n., m.) |
| del | del | of the, from the (de + el) |
| monte | monte | forest, wild country (n., m., the River Plate word for the bush) |
| que | que | that, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.) |
| cazaba | cazar | to hunt (v.) |
| con | con | with (prep.) |
| la | el | the (def. art., f.); also her, it (object pron., before a verb) |
| escopeta | escopeta | shotgun (n., f.) |
| después | después | afterwards, then; después de — after (adv./prep.) |
| frutas | fruta | fruit (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.