English → Tetun
sisters
biin-alin
Example sentences
"I said to my sisters, I've taken your money.
"Ha'u dehan ba alin feto katak, ha'u foti imi nian osan.
17-26,34 Brothers and sisters.
17-26, 33 Maun alin sira.
32 Sisters, remember the days of old.
32-39 Maun-alin sira: Imi hanoin hi'as ba loron hirak uluk nian.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “sisters”
- There are six of us brothers and sisters.Ami maun-alin na'in neen.
- They two are sisters, having the same mother and father.Sira na'in rua biin-alin: inan ida, aman ida.
- Brothers and sisters should live far apart so that they keep missing each other.Maun-alin tenke hela dodook malu para saudades malu nafatin.