English → Tetun
many years
tinan naruk
Example sentences
"For many years no one has spoken about Timor.
"Durante tinan barak laiha ema ida ko'alia kona-ba Timor.
"I have been a commander for many years.
"Ha'u komandante tinan barak ona.
14 Many years later, Samuel "was old."
14 Tinan barak liu tiha, Samuel "sai katuas ona."
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.