English → Tetun
thread
lahan, kabas
Example sentences
I’m using needle and thread to sew a ripped dress.
Ha'u uza kabas no daun atu suku vestidu ne'ebé naklees.
Use nylon thread to fly the kite so it won't break.
Uza kabas nailon hodi dada papagaiu para la bele kotu.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.