English → Tetun
village head
xefi suku
Example sentences
It is the village head who will be the one who implements this project.
Xefe suku mak sai implementadór ba projetu ne'e.
Mr Rui nominated himself as candidate for village head of Lospalos.
Sr. Rui na'in mak kandidata nia an rasik ba xefe suku Lospalos nian.
The village head said, “You’d better hide for a while, as the militia are looking for you.” So the, we did as he said.
Xefe aldeia dehan, “Diak liu imi subar lai, tanba milísia buka hela imi.” Nune'e prontu, ami mós halo tuir.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.