Children like greeting foreigners with “Hello mister!” in Tetun
Labarik sira gosta hasé malae dehan, “Helo mister!”
About this translation
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
- Many foreigners in Timor like to learn Tetun.Malae sira barak iha Timor gosta aprende língua Tetun.
- You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman.Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.
- When the children return from school, they like to just play.Labarik sira fila hosi eskola, gosta halimar de'it.
- Some foreigners like to buy local products in the tais market.Ema estranjeiru balu gosta sosa produtu lokál iha merkadu tais.
- The children like reading Mau Sesta’s story in the magazine Lafaek.Labarik sira gosta lee Mau Sesta nia istória iha revista Lafaek.
- Lots of children don’t like playing with Pedro because his behaviour isn’t good.Labarik barak la gosta halimar ho Pedro tanba nia atitude la di'ak.