Auntie unfairly accused my younger sister of stealing her money. in Tetun
Tia ne'e du'un matak de'it ha'u nia alin mak na'ok nia osan.
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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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