Brothers and sisters should live far apart so that they keep missing each other. in Tetun
Maun-alin tenke hela dodook malu para saudades malu nafatin.
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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
- They were angry at each other, to the extent that they each looked for rocks and threw them at each other.Sira hirus malu to'o ida-ida buka fatuk hodi tuda malu.
- They live far from the city.Sira hela dook hosi sidade.
- We all live close to each other.Ami hotu hela bes-besik malu.
- They were throwing stones at each other, but it was I who copped a blow.Sira tuda malu ho fatuk, ha'u mak kona pankada.
- They all ate until they were satisfied. Having eaten, they went their separate ways.Sira hotu han to'o bosu. Han tiha, sira mós fahe malu.
- My neighbours had a fight because they accused each other’s (wives) of being witches.Ha'u nia viziñu sira baku malu tanba du'un malu buan.