English → Tetun
river
mota
Example sentences
Afterwards, they crossed another river.
Hafoin, sira liu knuan seluk ida.
Go to the river Becora.
Tuur iha rai Becora.
I carry jerry cans to fetch water from the river.
Ha'u lori jérigen atu bá kuru bee iha mota laran.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “river”
- I carry jerry cans to fetch water from the river.Ha'u lori jérigen atu bá kuru bee iha mota laran.
- We stood on the slope and looked down to the river.Ami hamriik iha rai lolon, no hateke tuun ba mota.
- We can’t go looking for prawns now as the river is in full flow.Agora mota tuun ita la bele buka boek.
- We went to catch shrimps in the river to bring home and cook them .Ami bá kaer boek iha mota laran hodi lori bá uma halo modo.