around

Example sentences

• "Biodiversity rich in the sea around.

  "Biodiversidade furak mak iha tasi okos.

• "We're just laying around," he said.

  "Ami lalin hela de'it," nia dehan.

• AIIB has funded 63 projects around the world worth USD12 billion during the first 5 years of its inception.

  AIIB finansia ona projetu 63 iha mundu tomak, ho valór dolar amerikanu millaun rihun 12, hahú husi nia kriasaun iha tinan lima liubá.

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

Phrases using “around”

• We just saw a bee flying around in our house.Ohin ami haree bani semo iha ami nia uma leten.
• He just plays around all the time (he doesn't work).Nia loron-kalan halimar de'it.
• Don’t leave meat out, or lots of flies will gather around it.Na'an la bele rai iha li'ur, se lae lalar hobur barak tan de'it.
• Young people these days really like playing around in Facebook.Labarik foin-sa'e sira agora gosta liu halimar Facebook.
• Today I went into the sea, and a fishing net caught around my legs.Ohin ha'u tama tasi, rede dait ha'u nia ain.