English → Tetun
rock
(rock to and fro) doko
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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 46,000-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.