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Sentence 16 of 19 · La tortuga gigante, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

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.

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As printedDictionary formMeaning
Precisamente precisamenteprecisely, exactly (adv.)
un una, an, one (indef. art.)
día díaday (n., m.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
tenía tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
mucha muchomuch, many; a lot (adj./adv.)
hambre hambrehunger (n., f. — takes el: el hambre)
porque porquebecause (conj.)
hacía hacerto do, make (v.)
dos dostwo (num.)
no nono, not (adv.)
cazaba cazarto hunt (v.)
nada nadanothing (pron.)
vió now vio verto see (v.)
a ato; at; on (prep.)
la elthe (masculine)
orilla orillabank, shore, edge (n., f.)
de deof, from (prep.)
gran grandebig, great (adj.)
laguna lagunalagoon, pool (n., f.)
tigre tigretiger — in these tales the jaguar of the South American forest (n., m.)
enorme enormeenormous (adj.)
quería quererto want; to love (v.)
comer comerto eat (v.)
tortuga tortugatortoise, turtle (n., f.)
y yand (conj.)
ponía ponerto put, place; ponerse — to put on, become (v.)
parada pararto stop; pararse — to stand up (v.)
canto cantosong, call (n., m.)
para parafor, in order to (prep.)
meter meterto put in; meterse — to get into (v.)
dentro dentroinside, within (adv.)
pata patapaw, leg of an animal (n., f.)
sacar sacarto take out, pull out; to remove (v.)
carne carnemeat, flesh (n., f.)
con conwith (prep.)
uñas uñanail, claw (n., f.)

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