At home we use the town water supply. in Tetun
Ami iha uma uza bee PAM.
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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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- We use this car for ourselves (i.e. for private use).Ami uza kareta ne'e ba ami nia an.
- I'm going to fetch water from the spring/water source.Ha'u bá kuru bee iha bee matan.
- We filled the jerry can with water and carried it home.Ami enxe bee ba jérigen hodi lori ba uma.
- This water is murky. You can use it to bathe but not to drink.Bee ne'e merak, bele hariis maibé la bele hemu.
- The water is very hot. Add some cold water to make it just lukewarm.Bee ne'e manas loos, aumenta tan bee malirin hodi halo morna de'it.
- Many people nowadays use gas for cooking, and don’t use firewood any more.Ema barak agora uza gás hodi te'in, no la uza ona ai-sunu.