English → Tetun
clan
uma lisan
Example sentences
There is only a "clan."
Iha de'it "clan."
We are digging up our grandparents' skeletons to be buried together at the one clan house.
Ami kee ami nia avoo sira nia mate ruin atu hakoi hamutuk iha uma lisan ida de'it.
We are from the clan of Leet.
Ami hosi uma lisan Leet.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “clan”
- We are from the clan of Leet.Ami hosi uma lisan Leet.
- We are digging up our grandparents' skeletons to be buried together at the one clan house.Ami kee ami nia avoo sira nia mate ruin atu hakoi hamutuk iha uma lisan ida de'it.
- We have come from the clan of Koremau, looking for a rose by the name of Maria, whom our son has truly fallen for.Ami husi uma lisan Koremau. Ami mai buka ai-funan roza ida ho naran Maria ne'ebé halo ami nia oan mane laran monu tebes.