cook

All translations

• tein; (person) ema nebee
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• tein; ema tein, kozinheiru/a, tein door
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Example sentences

• At home I have a sack of rice. When I’m hungry, I will cook it to eat.

  Iha uma ha'u iha foos saka ida. Kuandu ha'u hamlaha ha'u te'in para han.

• Bring me the sack so that we can fill it up with local rice to bring home to cook.

  Lori karoon mai para ita tau foos rai lori bá uma te'in.

• Dad has gone out to mill rice for us to cook for the evening meal.

  Apá sai ba dulas hare hodi sai foos atu ami te'in ba han kalan nian.

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

Phrases using “cook”

• Uncle strangled the chicken to cook it.Tiu ohin buti manu nia kakorok hodi halo modo.
• When we cook dog meat we always use lemon grass.Bainhira ami te'in na'an asu sempre uza du'ut morin.
• I have to cook first. Only then can the two of us go out.Ha'u tenke te'in lai. Depois mak ita na'in rua bá pasiar.
• Go quickly to the kitchen to help mum cook for these visitors.Bá lalais dapur hodi ajuda amá te'in ba bainaka sira ne'e.
• We had no time to cook, so just chewed uncooked dried cassava.Ami la iha tempu atu te'in, nune'e ami ruun matak de'it ai-fariña maran.