At night we can’t sleep, because we are worried. in Tetun
Kalan ami toba la dukur, tanba hanoin barak.
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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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- I have a lot of dandruff, with the result that I can’t sleep well just because it’s so itchy.Ha'u nia kaspa barak loos, halo ha'u toba la di'ak tan de'it katar.
- You can't eat the fruit yet, because it is still under the horok taboo. You can only eat the fruit once the king removes the horok.La bele han ai-fuan ne'e lai, tanba sei tara hela horok. Aban liurai sei hasai horok mak bele han.
- We can drive fast because the road is flat now.Agora ita bele lori kareta halai maka'as tanba rai tetuk.
- We can’t avoid problems because they are a reality of life.Ita la bele halai sees hosi problema ne'e tanba ida ne'e mak realidade moris.
- We can’t study effectively because the children are so noisy.Ami estuda la di'ak tanba labarik sira estrundu loos.
- Last night Lino was drunk because he drank so much at the wedding.Hori kalan Lino tua lanu tanba nia hemu barak loos iha festa kazamentu.