rock

All translations

• (rock to and fro) doko
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• (stone) fatuk
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Example sentences

• Don’t shake/rock the baby like that!

  La bele doko bebé hanesan ne'e!

• Find me a flat rock, I want to sit down.

  Buka fatuk kabelak ida, ha'u atu tuur.

• He had a very strong character, hard as rock.

  Nia iha duni hahalok ne'ebe metin hanesan fatuk.

Examples from the 90,000+ sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “rock”

• Don’t shake/rock the baby like that!La bele doko bebé hanesan ne'e!
• Find me a flat rock, I want to sit down.Buka fatuk kabelak ida, ha'u atu tuur.
• In our suburb, when there is a rock fight, we always bang metal (as a warning).Iha ami nia bairu kuandu ema tuda malu, ami sempre dere besi.
• I have a riddle: (If you) cut the earth you get a stone, (if you) cut a rock you get water.Ha'u iha ai-sasi'ik ida: Taa rai hetan fatuk, taa fatuk hetan bee.