English → Tetun
scratch
koi; rakut
Example sentences
"Let's start from scratch.
"Ita hahu hosi zero.
"We started from scratch.
"Ami hahu hosi zero.
All of this in a post conflict country which literally had to ‘start from scratch’ and ‘rise from the ashes’ after 1999.
Buat hirak ne’e hotu iha nasaun pós-konflitu ida, ne’ebé bele dehan tenke hahú husi zero, moris fila-fali husi ahi-kadesan hafoin tinan 1999.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.