One sentence of «La tortuga gigante»
Precisamente un día que tenía mucha hambre, porque hacía dos días que no cazaba nada, vió a la orilla de una gran laguna un tigre enorme que quería comer a una tortuga, y la ponía parada de canto para meter dentro una pata y sacar la carne con las uñas.
One day in particular, when he was very hungry because he had caught nothing for two days, he saw at the edge of a great lagoon an enormous jaguar that was trying to eat a tortoise, standing her up on her edge so as to get a paw inside and hook the flesh out with its claws.
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Precisamente | precisamente | precisely, exactly (adv.) |
| un | un | a, an, one (indef. art.) |
| día | día | day (n., m.) |
| que | que | that, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.) |
| tenía | tener | to have; tener que — to have to (v.) |
| mucha | mucho | much, many; a lot (adj./adv.) |
| hambre | hambre | hunger (n., f. — takes el: el hambre) |
| porque | porque | because (conj.) |
| hacía | hacer | to do, make (v.) |
| dos | dos | two (num.) |
| no | no | no, not (adv.) |
| cazaba | cazar | to hunt (v.) |
| nada | nada | nothing (pron.) |
| vió now vio | ver | to see (v.) |
| a | a | to; at; on (prep.) |
| la | el | the (masculine) |
| orilla | orilla | bank, shore, edge (n., f.) |
| de | de | of, from (prep.) |
| gran | grande | big, great (adj.) |
| laguna | laguna | lagoon, pool (n., f.) |
| tigre | tigre | tiger — in these tales the jaguar of the South American forest (n., m.) |
| enorme | enorme | enormous (adj.) |
| quería | querer | to want; to love (v.) |
| comer | comer | to eat (v.) |
| tortuga | tortuga | tortoise, turtle (n., f.) |
| y | y | and (conj.) |
| ponía | poner | to put, place; ponerse — to put on, become (v.) |
| parada | parar | to stop; pararse — to stand up (v.) |
| canto | canto | song, call (n., m.) |
| para | para | for, in order to (prep.) |
| meter | meter | to put in; meterse — to get into (v.) |
| dentro | dentro | inside, within (adv.) |
| pata | pata | paw, leg of an animal (n., f.) |
| sacar | sacar | to take out, pull out; to remove (v.) |
| carne | carne | meat, flesh (n., f.) |
| con | con | with (prep.) |
| uñas | uña | nail, claw (n., f.) |
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