Auntie wove a betel container to keep her betel nut and betel pepper in. in Tetun
Tia homan mama fatin para atu tau nia bua malus iha laran.
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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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Related phrases
- I'll buy a bundle of betel pepper leaves so that I can offer betel nut to the old ladies.Ha'u sosa lai malus futun ida para bele look ferik sira.
- Auntie stuck her hairpin through her hair.Tia sikat ulsuku iha fuuk.
- Her boyfriend bled her dry till she didn't even have five cents left on her!Nia namoradu ne'e hais nia to'o lima sén mós la iha nia isin!
- Auntie got into the minibus and held her niece on her lap because the minibus was full of people.Tia sa'e mikrolét hiti de'it nia subriña tanba ema nakonu.
- Maria keeps hassling her mother (to give her) money.Maria sateia hela de'it nia amá tanba osan.
- A child cried very loudly because her mother hit her.Labarik ida tanis hakilar maka'as loos tanba nia mamá baku.