rather

Example sentences

• "We would rather have water and roads.

  "Ami-nia hakarak liu mak bee ho estrada.

• Barak rather worships false deities.

  Barak liu mak adora maromak falsu sira.

• I'd rather die than do it.

  Di'ak liu ha'u halo mak mate.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “rather”

• I'm rather preoccupied with work. I'll follow you later.Ha'u atrapalladu uitoan ho servisu. Orsida mak ha'u tuir.
• You’d better just freshen up quickly rather than taking a long time to bathe.Di'ak liu haruus para lalais duké hariis kleur.