English → Tetun
timid
mentál la iha
Example sentences
19 Zedekiah was a weak and timid king.
19 Zedekias mak liurai ne'ebe fraku no laran-aat.
This boy is timid, too scared to speak in the front.
Labarik mane ne'e mentál la iha, nia ta'uk atu ko'alia iha oin.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.