absent

Example sentences

• He also emphasised that the delegation was absent from sightseeing but from working actively in technical meetings, consolidating the efforts that preceded accession and planning the next steps.

  Governante ne’e fó-énfaze tan katak delegasaun ne’e la’ós atu ba paseiu, maibé ba serbisu ho ativu iha sorumutuk tékniku sira, iha konsolidasaun esforsu sira molok adezaun no iha planeamentu ba etapa sira tuirmai.

• The children were all present; there was only one who was absent.

  Labarik sira iha hotu. Só ida de'it mak falta.

• The first was with his counterpart, who replaced the Finance Minister, Hélio de Almeida, who was absent from the country.

  Ida uluk halo ho ninia omólogu, ne’ebé substitui Ministru Finansas nian, Hélio de Almeida, ne’ebé iha hela nasaun seluk.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “absent”

• The children were all present; there was only one who was absent.Labarik sira iha hotu. Só ida de'it mak falta.
• This member of parliament asked the assembly to investigate those members who are frequently absent.Deputadu ne'e husu ba meza atu investiga deputadu sira ne'ebé mak falta beibeik.