borrow

All translations

• empresta
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• empresta, (from bank)
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Example sentences

• A friend wants to borrow our car, but I don’t want to give it to him.

  Ita nia kareta ne'e kolega atu empresta, maibé ha'u lakohi fó.

• Do not borrow someone's brain to think.

  Labele empresta ema nia kakutak atu hanoin.

• Do you have three dollars that I can borrow?"

  Ita iha osan dollar tolu atu ha'u bele empresta ka?"

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

Phrases using “borrow”

• Maria, can I borrow your dictionary? I’ve lost mine.Maria, ha'u bele empresta ita nia disionáriu ka? Ha'u nian lakon.
• I’ll borrow your blanket to use for a while, as I feel very cold.Ha'u empresta ita nia kapote hodi uza lai, tanba sente malirin loos.
• A friend wants to borrow our car, but I don’t want to give it to him.Ita nia kareta ne'e kolega atu empresta, maibé ha'u lakohi fó.