English → Tetun
majority
maioria
Example sentences
"It depends on the majority.
"Ne'e depende ba miaoria.
"People of Timor Majority Rejects Autonomy."
"Povu Timor Maioria Rejeita Autonomia."
"The majority of the people live as farmers.
"Povu maioria moris nu'udar agrikultor.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “majority”
- The majority of Timorese are Christian.Ema Timor maioria Kristaun barak.
- When a party gets an absolute majority, this means that it gets more than 50% of all votes.Kuandu partidu ida hetan maioria absoluta, ne'e katak nia hetan liu 50% hosi votu hotu-hotu.
- This draft law reflects the interests of a small group of people, and sacrifices the interests of the majority!Projetu lei ne'e reflete de'it interese grupu ki'ik ida, no sakrifika interese ema barak nian!
- When a party gets a simple majority, it gets more votes than the other parties, even if it doesn't reach 50% of all votes.Kuandu kandidatu ida hetan maioria simples, nia hetan votu barak liu partidu sira seluk, maski la to'o 50% hosi votu hotu-hotu karik.
- In popular consultation in 1999, the majority of East Timorese rejected the autonomy offered by Indonesia and instead chose independence.Iha loron konsulta populár iha 1999, povu Timor-leste maioria rejeita autonomia ne'ebé mak Indonézia oferese hodi hili fali independénsia.