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Erano centinaia, addirittura migliaia

Translation

They were hundreds, even thousands.



Analysis


erano
     1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative of essere
     essere
          1. v. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be, to stay
          2. v. (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to
          3. v. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed
          4. n. being
centinaia
     1. n. plural of centinaio
addirittura
     1. adv. even
     2. adv. directly
     3. adv. absolutely
migliaia
     1. n. plural of migliaio
     migliaio
          1. n. thousand, about a thousand, about one thousand
          2. n. (in the plural) thousands, hundred, hundreds (a great number)




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