sack

All translations

• (bag) karoon; saku; saka
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• (dismiss) hasai (ema hosi
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Example sentences

• A rat has eaten holes in the rice sack, so now the rice has all spilled out.

  Laho tata kuak hotu foos karoon laran, foos fakar sai hotu.

• At home I have a sack of rice. When I’m hungry, I will cook it to eat.

  Iha uma ha'u iha foos saka ida. Kuandu ha'u hamlaha ha'u te'in para han.

• Bring me the sack so that we can fill it up with local rice to bring home to cook.

  Lori karoon mai para ita tau foos rai lori bá uma te'in.

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

Phrases using “sack”

• I fill a sack with (unhusked) rice.Ha'u enxe hare ba saku.
• They stuffed things into the sack, so that it almost tore.Sira sena sasán tama ba saku halo saku atu naklees ona.
• Buy a sack of rice so that (it can be enough) to eat for a month.Sosa foos saka para ita han to'o fulan ida.
• At home I have a sack of rice. When I’m hungry, I will cook it to eat.Iha uma ha'u iha foos saka ida. Kuandu ha'u hamlaha ha'u te'in para han.
• A rat has eaten holes in the rice sack, so now the rice has all spilled out.Laho tata kuak hotu foos karoon laran, foos fakar sai hotu.