A friend wants to borrow our car, but I don’t want to give it to him. in Tetun
Ita nia kareta ne'e kolega atu empresta, maibé ha'u lakohi fó.
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This Tetun (Tetum) translation comes from a curated 2,500-phrase parallel corpus drawn from the official tetun.org dictionary by Catharina Williams-van Klinken. Tetun is one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste alongside Portuguese.
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- Don’t deny you friend like this, as one day you’ll need him.Ó la bele nega ó nia kolega hanesan ne'e, tempu ida sei presiza nia.
- The old drunkard man came asking for booze. Don’t give him any!Katuas lanu-teen mai atu husu tua. Lalika fó!
- It was my fault. Don't blame him!Ne'e ha'u nia sala. Keta fó todan ba nia!
- Whatever you want, Dad will give.Ó hakarak saida de'it, apá fó.
- I don't want to watch television.Ha'u lakohi haree televizaun.
- Atoy is a liar. Don’t believe him!Atoy ema ida ne'ebé bosok-teen. Keta fiar nia!