Sister

All translations

• (older) biin, mana
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• irmán
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Example sentences

• "Good afternoon, sister Alin.

  "Boa tarde alin sira.

• "Sabraka talin ida hira, sister."

  "Sabraka talin ida hira, alin."

• "So, sister I bought this."

  "Entaun, alin, ha'u hola talin ida."

Examples from the 90,000+ sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “Sister”

• Yesterday I saw you (older sister) walking.Horiseik ha'u haree mana la'o hela.
• My younger sister does the sweeping every morning.Dadeer-dadeer ha'u nia alin sempre dasa rai.
• Younger sister, heat up some coffee for our visitors to drink.Alin, hamanas lai kafé fó ba ita nia bainaka hemu.
• Older sister, what colour are you going to paint your toenails?Mana nia ain kukun ne'e atu pinta kór saida?
• Auntie unfairly accused my younger sister of stealing her money.Tia ne'e du'un matak de'it ha'u nia alin mak na'ok nia osan.