greedy

Example sentences

• "Once upon a time, we were very greedy.

  "Iha tempu uluk, ita araska tebe-tebes.

• How come a greedy woman ends up marrying a good man like Melki!

  Feto karak-teen hola loos mane ida di'ak hanesan Melki ne'e!

• Lita is very greedy. She will not share her mangoes with others.

  Mana Lita kaan-teen loos, nia sei la fahe nia haas ba ema seluk.

Examples from the 90,000+ sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “greedy”

• How come a greedy woman ends up marrying a good man like Melki!Feto karak-teen hola loos mane ida di'ak hanesan Melki ne'e!
• Lita is very greedy. She will not share her mangoes with others.Mana Lita kaan-teen loos, nia sei la fahe nia haas ba ema seluk.
• This teacher is greedy. Only if we give money does he give us good marks.Mestre ne'e matan osan; ita fó osan mak nia fó valór di'ak.