No. 10,977 in Catalan
seques
"Seques" in Catalan means "dried" or "dry" (feminine plural).
In a sentence
Les mongetes seques són típiques de la cuina catalana.
Dried beans are typical of Catalan cuisine.
In this sentence, 'seques' is an adjective modifying 'mongetes', describing the beans as dried.
Després de la pluja, les sabates em van quedar seques amb el sol.
After the rain, my shoes dried out in the sun.
Here, 'seques' is an adjective describing the state of the shoes after they dried.
No sé quines flors pengeu, però les seques no són gaire boniques.
I don't know which flowers you hang up, but dried ones aren't very pretty.
In this case, 'seques' describes the flowers being dried, modifying their noun.
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