Auntie Lena is scattering corn outside for the chickens to eat. in Tetun
Tia Lena kari hela batar iha li'ur para manu mai han.
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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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- Every morning grandma scatters corn for the chickens to eat.Dadeer-dadeer avoo lekar batar ba manu han.
- How many types of corn did you plant? - We planted two types: ‘quick’ corn and ‘big’ corn.Imi kuda batar oin hira? - Ami kuda oin rua: batar lais ho batar boot.
- Some older women say, if you have swollen glands, then you should take a (cob of) corn and swirl it around the gland seven times. Then smash the corn, or else throw it to the pigs to eat.Ferik balu dehan, se sukaer musan kona, entaun foti batar kose hadulas dala hitu. Depois tuku rahun tiha batar ne'e, se lae, hodi batar ne'e soe tiha ba fahi han.
- Atoi wants to eat corn.Atoi hakarak han batar.
- If corn has been contaminated with aflatoxin, it's better not to eat it.Se batar hetan kontaminasaun aflatoksin, di'ak liu keta han.
- Build a fence around the garden so that animals can’t come in and eat the corn.Halo lutu hale'u toos para animál la bele tama mai han batar.