English → Tetun
wise
matenek
Example sentences
"I know you're all just wise.
"Ha'u hatene imi hotu mesak matenek de'it.
"Leadership does not come only from the wise.
"Lideransa la mai hosi ema matenek de'it.
"The people of Timor-Leste have become wise.
"Povu Timor ne'e matenek ona.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.