English → Tetun
police
polísia
Example sentences
"I took everything to the police.
"Buat hotu-hotu ha'u lori ba polisia.
"I want the revolution out of police.
"Imi hakarak revolusaun sai tiha husi polisia.
"The military acts when the police can't.
"Militar atua kuandu polisia labele ona.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “police”
- The police must be independent and non-partisan.Polísia tenke independente no apartidáriu.
- The police stopped the cars that passed the check point.Polísia hapara kareta sira ne'ebé liu cek poin.
- The police have warned the youth that they should not go out at night.Polísia alerta ona ba joven sira atu la bele sai iha tempu kalan.
- The police reconciled the two young people who had a fight last night.Ohin polísia hadame joven na'in rua ne'ebé baku malu hori kalan.
- The police captured one suspect and detained him in a cell for 72 hours.Polísia kaptura suspeitu ida hodi detein nia iha sela durante oras 72.