English → Tetun
illness
moras
Example sentences
"We all thought it was a simple illness.
"Ami hotu hanoin dehan moras simples.
But he suffered a year's illness before dying.
Ta ne'e, nia sofre moras tinan ida nia laran atu mate la mate.
But sad feelings are not the same as illness.
Maibe sentimentu triste la hanesan ho moras.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “illness”
- The child is sick on and off. I don’t know what her illness is.Labarik ne'e moras oraoras. Ha'u la hatene nia moras ne'e saida.
- The doctor explained clearly that there is no further treatment for my mother’s illness.Doutór esplika momoos katak amá nia moras ne'e, tratamentu la iha tan.
- It was after being ill that she died. (The implication is that it was the illness that caused her death.)Nia moras mak mate.