auntie

Example sentences

• Auntie Berta promised that she would kill a cow during for All Souls' Day.

  Tia Berta promete katak nia sei oho karau ida iha tempu Finadu.

• Auntie Lena is scattering corn outside for the chickens to eat.

  Tia Lena kari hela batar iha li'ur para manu mai han.

• Auntie Martinha is uncle Pedro’s wife.

  Tia Martinha ne'e tiu Pedro nia kaben.

Examples from the 90,000+ sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “auntie”

• Good afternoon, auntie.Botardi, tia.
• Auntie mills rice in a (rice) mill.Tia dulas hare uza mákina.
• Auntie Martinha is uncle Pedro’s wife.Tia Martinha ne'e tiu Pedro nia kaben.
• Auntie sells vegetables in the market.Tia fa'an modo iha merkadu.
• Auntie processes pineapple to make jam.Tia prosesa ai-nanás sai marmelada.