English → Tetun
drunk
(intoxicated) lanu, tua
Example sentences
"Actually he couldn't be drunk like that.
"Tuir loloos nia labele bebas hanesan ne'e.
(I suspect) you might have drunk wine. That’s why your face is flushed.
Ó hemu tua karik, ne'e mak halo ó nia oin mean.
Last night Lino was drunk because he drank so much at the wedding.
Hori kalan Lino tua lanu tanba nia hemu barak loos iha festa kazamentu.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “drunk”
- Who got my son/daughter drunk?Sé mak fó lanu ha'u nia oan ne'e?
- Uncle Abel is a drinker, he has drunk since he was young.Tiu Abel hemu dór tua, dezde ki'ik kedas nia hemu.
- Last night Lino was drunk because he drank so much at the wedding.Hori kalan Lino tua lanu tanba nia hemu barak loos iha festa kazamentu.
- (I suspect) you might have drunk wine. That’s why your face is flushed.Ó hemu tua karik, ne'e mak halo ó nia oin mean.