Before starting the exam, each of the pupils looked fixedly at the notebooks lying on their tables. in Tetun
Antes atu hahú ezame, alunus ida-idak hateke meti-metin kadernu ne'ebé latan iha meza leten.
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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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