English → Tetun
since
(time) dezde, hosi (tempu
Example sentences
"Have you been smoking since January?
"Sira toba dezde fulan-Janeiru?
"I've been inclined towards SHIO since 2013.
"Ha'u inklina-an iha SHIO desde tinan 2001 to'o agora.
"It is an honour for Timor-Leste to host this high-level meeting for the second time since our integration into the PALOP-TL Group in 2007.
"Hanesan onra ida ba Timor-Leste hodi sai uma-na'in ba sorumutu altu nivel ida-ne'e ba dala rua, dezde ami-nia integrasaun iha Grupu PALOP-TL iha tinan 2007.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “since”
- We have lived in Dili since I was young.Dezde ha'u sei ki'ik, ami hela iha Dili.
- Uncle Abel is a drinker, he has drunk since he was young.Tiu Abel hemu dór tua, dezde ki'ik kedas nia hemu.
- This house was built since Portuguese time, so now looks very old.Uma ne'e harii dezde tempu Portugal, entaun agora ita haree antigu loos ona.