English → Tetun
death
mate
Example sentences
"A little bit of death, a good one.
"Maibe mate, mate ona.
"But now, death has come back.
"Ne'e duni, mate mak halimar fali.
"Give thanks to God, for the grace of death.
"Agradese ba Maromak, ba grasa moris-nian.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “death”
- No one escapes from death.La iha ema ida mak bele halai sees hosi mate.
- Jesus offered himself up to death.Na'i Jesus saran an ba mate.
- A snake strangled a dog to death in the farm.Samea bobar asu ida mate hela iha toos laran.
- The Lord Jesus gave himself up to death to save us sinners.Na'i Jesus saran nia an ba mate hodi soi ita sala na'in.
- She removes lice from her hair, then squashes them to death.Nia hasai utu iha nia ulun, depois nia hedi.