English → Tetun
run
halai; (conduct) halao
Example sentences
"Ro does not run so we will wait.
"Ro la halai entaun ita sei hein.
A political impasse emerged in the long run.
Impase politika mosu iha tempu naruk nia laran.
Dad tied up the horse’s reins to a big tree so the horse wouldn’t run off again.
Pai kesi kuda talin iha ai-huun boot para kuda lalika halai tan.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “run”
- The child drank cold water, making his nose run.Labarik hemu bee malirin halo nia inus been sulin.
- The motorbike has run out of petrol. Let’s take it to fill it up.Motór nia mina maran loos, ita lori ba enxe tiha lai.
- Some people say that I demand justice, but at the same time I run from it.Ema balu dehan, ha'u rekere justisa, maibé ha'u rasik halai hosi justisa
- Dad tied up the horse’s reins to a big tree so the horse wouldn’t run off again.Pai kesi kuda talin iha ai-huun boot para kuda lalika halai tan.
- The motorbike has run out of petrol, and needs to be filled up at the petrol station.Motór nia mina maran ona, presiza bá enxe iha pertamina.