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Enrique
Proper noun
  decidió
Verb
  llevar
Verb
  a
Adposition
  los
Determiner
  jesuitas
Noun
  a
Adposition
  Portugal
Portugal
Proper noun
  y
Coordinating conjunction
  utilizarlos
  en
Adposition
  el
Determiner
  imperio
Noun
  colonial
Adjective
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Henry, more than anyone, endeavoured to bring the Jesuits to Portugal and employed them in the colonial empire.
Words and sentences
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Enrique

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
  2. the letter E in the Spanish spelling alphabet

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decidió

third-person singular preterite indicative of decidir

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a

Portugal
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Portugal

Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

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en

  1. in, at, on
  2. in (a time)
  3. in (a language)
  4. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English
  5. in (in various expressions)

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el

masculine singular definite article; the

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colonial

colonial

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jesuitas

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