English → Tetun
war
funu
Example sentences
"This year is the Year of War.
"Tinan ne'e nu'udar tinan karau nian.
"We won't win the war with weapons.
"Ita la manan funu ho kilat.
(During the guerirlla war) we had to transform our strategic inferiority into tactical superiority.
Ita tenke transforma ita nia inferioridade tátika ba iha superioridade estratéjika.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.
Phrases using “war”
- Thousands of people died during the war.Ema rihun-rahun mak mate iha tempu funu nian.
- Many Timorese people were killed during the war.Uluk ema oho mate Timor oan barak iha funu laran.
- Before the war erupted, we all escaped to Darwin.Antes dé funu tama, ami halai hotu ba Darwin.
- We must remember those friends who died in the war.Ita tenke hanoin maluk sira ne'ebé mate iha funu laran.
- When we fight a war, we have to accept the consequences.Kuandu ita halo funu, ita tenke simu nia konsekuénsia.