Usage examples of "patas" in Spanish with translation to English

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Una mesa tiene cuatro patas. A table has four legs.
Un camión atropelló a mi perro, no lo mató, pero le lastimó seriamente las patas. My dog was run over by a truck. He was not killed, but his foot was badly injured.
Un perro tiene cuatro patas. A dog has four legs.
Las patas de la mesa se tambalean. The legs of the table are shaky.
Un gato tiene una cola y cuatro patas. A cat has a tail and four legs.
Tira la silla de patas rotas por favor. Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.
La pieza estaba llena de bichos, millones de pequeños insectos con muchas patas retorciéndose. The room was full of bugs, millions of small, wriggling bugs with lots of legs.
La habitación estaba llena de insectos, millones de bichitos con muchas patas que se retorcían. The room was full of bugs, millions of small, wriggling bugs with lots of legs.
La grulla estaba paraba en una pata. The crane was standing on one leg.
Iba a comprar una mesa nueva, pero mi marido ya arregló la pata rota. I was going to buy a new table, but my husband fixed the broken leg.
Él es, por así decirlo, una enciclopedia con patas. He is, as it were so to speak, a walking encyclopedia.
Tom pensó que lo que Mary escribió no tenía patas ni cabeza. Tom thought that what Mary wrote didn't make any sense.
Alicia te va a decir que en el País de las Maravillas todo está patas para arriba. Alice will tell you that in Wonderland everything is topsy-turvy.
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