Auntie got into the minibus and held her niece on her lap because the minibus was full of people. in Tetun
Tia sa'e mikrolét hiti de'it nia subriña tanba ema nakonu.
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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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- A child cried very loudly because her mother hit her.Labarik ida tanis hakilar maka'as loos tanba nia mamá baku.
- Atauro people carve wood into beautiful statues of people.Ema Atauro bahat ai sai estátua ema ne'ebé furak loos.
- People just kept coming in, until the house was full of people.Ema tama mate nabanaban, to'o uma laran ema nakonu.
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- The young lady forgot to button up her shirt button, with the result that many people stared at her.Menina ne'e haluha prega butaun faru nian, halo ema hotu fihir nia.