English → Tetun
grandmother
avoo feto
Example sentences
"We're going to work after Grandmother Nana.
"Ami koko atu serbisu tuir avo Nana.
Aluta Grandmother. Aloha, grandma!
Aluta Avo Nana.
But my grandmother sent me to help her mother.
Maibe avo-feto haruka ha'u ba ajuda tiha ha'u nia ama.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “grandmother”
- When my grandmother returned to Dili, I hugged her.Bainhira avoo fila mai Dili, ha'u hakuak nia.
- Grandmother weaves baskets at home to take to the market to sell.Avoo feto homan lafatik iha uma para bá fa'an iha merkadu.
- Maria recorded her grandmother’s voice using a telephone, so that in future she can listen to it again.Maria grava nia avoo nia lian uza telefone, para aban-bainrua bele rona fali.