English → Tetun
earth
rai
Example sentences
"Our ONE BOOT - Planet Earth, is in danger!
"Ita-nia UMA BOOT - Planeta Terra, iha hela risku laran!
"The deepest smoke of the earth...
"Imi masin rai nian...
10He called the land its bad, "dry earth."
10Nia nanaran rai nia naak, "rai maran."
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “earth”
- What on earth is this child eating to make him so fat!?Labarik ne'e han de'it saida mak bokur loos ne'e!?
- We must respect our parents so that we may live long lives on earth.Ita tenke hamta'uk ita nia inan-aman atu nune'e ita nia vida bele naruk iha mundu ne'e.
- I have a riddle: (If you) cut the earth you get a stone, (if you) cut a rock you get water.Ha'u iha ai-sasi'ik ida: Taa rai hetan fatuk, taa fatuk hetan bee.