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Portuguese “amigo” → Tetun “belun”

Correct forms

  • belun
  • kolega

Incorrect forms

  • amigo

Notes

Note
Untranslated Portuguese word for “friend”. Use the Tetun equivalent. Source: Peace Corps Tetun Language Course (3rd ed.) contrastive vocabulary. False-positive tested against 31,500 known-good sentences.

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Source: Tetun lint rule catalog. Built from Peace Corps Tetun (CWvK 2015), DIT Justice Sector textbook, WvK & Ximenes Ortografia Tetun Dili (2025), and INL Matadalan Ortográfiku ba Tetun-Prasa (2003, Decree 1/2004).