English → Tetun
grandma
avoo main
Example sentences
Aluta Grandmother. Aloha, grandma!
Aluta Avo Nana.
Every morning grandma scatters corn for the chickens to eat.
Dadeer-dadeer avoo lekar batar ba manu han.
Grandma needs a baby bottle to put milk in for her grandchild.
Avoo presiza bibirón hodi tau susu been ba nia bei-oan.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “grandma”
- Every morning grandma scatters corn for the chickens to eat.Dadeer-dadeer avoo lekar batar ba manu han.
- Grandma needs a baby bottle to put milk in for her grandchild.Avoo presiza bibirón hodi tau susu been ba nia bei-oan.
- Last night there was an earthquake, and we all stampeded out of the house, so much so that grandma fell on top of my younger brother.Hori kalan rai nakdoko, ami hotu halai saruntu malu ba li'ur, to'o avoo monu hanehan tan ha'u nia alin.