Mas então, embora você ainda não tenha os hambúrgueres, seu trabalho no caixa está "pausado", porquê você tem que esperar seus hambúrgueres estarem prontos.

## Coroutines

**Coroutine** is just the very fancy term for the thing returned by an `async def` function. Python knows that it is something like a function that it can start and that it will end at some point, but that it might be paused ⏸ internally too, whenever there is an `await` inside of it.

Sólo las comes y listo 🍔 ⏹.

<img src="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/img/async/parallel-burgers/parallel-burgers-06.png" alt="illustration">

No has hablado ni coqueteado mucho, ya que has pasado la mayor parte del tiempo esperando 🕙 frente al mostrador 😞.

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