English → Tetun
fire
ahi
Example sentences
"A house that has fire, water."
"Uma ne'ebe iha kedan ahi, bee."
"No one has ever seen such a huge fire.
"Laiha ema ida maka haree ona insendiu ida ne'ebe boot tebes.
"Now there is no fire in the air.
"Agora foku ba rai maran.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “fire”
- He turned off the light/extinguished the fire.Nia hamate ahi.
- Put the saucepan on the fire, then pour in the water.Hatidin tiha sanan ba ahi leten, depois mak fui bee ba.
- Bring the cigarette lighter here so I can light the fire to boil water.Lori iskeiru ne'e mai para ha'u sunu ai hodi nono bee.
- During the cool season in the mountains, we always warm ourselves by the fire.Kuandu tempu malirin iha foho, ami sempe haneruk ahi.
- Don’t roast the potatoes on the fire for too long, otherwise they will all be burnt.La bele tunu fehuk kleur liu iha ahi, se la bele motuk hotu.