desire

Example sentences

• "I have a desire, you know what my wish is.

  "Ha'u iha mehi ida, imi hatene ha'u nia mehi mak saida.

• "I have only one desire, I want to know Timor.

  "Hau nia mehi ida deit, hakrak atu konese Timor.

• 32 For I desire to deliver you from grief.

  32 Tuir loloos, ha'u hakarak atu imi livre husi laran-susar.

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

Phrases using “desire”

• I have the desire to study at university.Ha'u iha vontade rasik atu eskola iha universidade.
• These days Dili is overly modern, and people desire to have all sorts of things.Ohin loron Dili modernu liu, no ema nia matan kaan buat hotu-hotu.