English → Tetun
talk
koalia; dada lia
Example sentences
"Hello please, don't make me talk!"
"Halo favor, keta halo hau koalia!"
"I can't talk about it all today.
"Ha'u labele ko'alia hotu ohin.
"I can't talk about things that I cannot.
"Ha'u labele ko'alia buat ne'ebe ha'u labele ko'alia.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “talk”
- Don’t talk like that!La bele ko'alia nune'e!
- Go and talk with Mrs Patricia. – I’ve already done it!Ó bá ko'alia ho Dona Patricia lai! – Ha'u bá tiha ona sá!
- The people now have the courage to talk about corruption.Populasaun agora dadaun iha korajen atu ko'alia kona ba korupsaun.
- Our meeting today is to talk about preparations for Christmas.Ita nia hasoru malu ida ne'e atu ko'alia kona ba preparasaun ba festa Natál.
- Atoy might have gone a bit crazy to make him talk randomly like that.Atoy kala fulan lotuk fali ona mak ko'alia arbiru de'it ne'e.