English → Tetun
girlfriend
namorada, doben
Example sentences
Anton promised, "I won't leave you until we die!" His girlfriend laughingly said, "Promise!"
Anton promete, "Hau sei la husik ó to'o mate!" Nia doben hamnasa dehan, "O ju!"
Atoi is looking intently at a girl because he’d like her to become his girlfriend.
Atoi fihir feto ida tanba nia gosta atu sai nia doben.
I heard a rumour that you have a new girlfriend.
Ha'u rona lia anin katak ó iha doben seluk ona.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “girlfriend”
- I heard a rumour that you have a new girlfriend.Ha'u rona lia anin katak ó iha doben seluk ona.
- Mariano is lying on the bed ringing his girlfriend.Mariano toba hela iha kama leten mak telefone malu ho nia doben.
- Wingky is hurt because his girlfriend swore at him.Wingky sente laran kanek tanba nia doben tolok nia.
- Leo is furious to see his girlfriend walking with another man.Leo nia laran manas loos haree nia doben la'o ho mane seluk.
- Atoi is looking intently at a girl because he’d like her to become his girlfriend.Atoi fihir feto ida tanba nia gosta atu sai nia doben.