Dad went and cut down all the corn stalks in the field and burned them. in Tetun
Apá bá tesi hotu tiha batar kain iha toos laran hodi sunu.
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.
Want to translate your own English text? Try the free English ↔ Tetun translator. Or browse the Tetun dictionary for individual word lookups.
Related phrases
- The mangoes on the farm are all ripe, we’re about to go and hook them (to pick them).Haas iha toos lar tasak hotu ona, ami atu bá kait.
- How many types of corn did you plant? - We planted two types: ‘quick’ corn and ‘big’ corn.Imi kuda batar oin hira? - Ami kuda oin rua: batar lais ho batar boot.
- All the teachers went to Baucau today.Mestre hotu-hotu ohin bá Baucau.
- Alino, bring the scissors to cut dad’s hair.Alino lori kateri mai tesi pai nia fuuk.
- The teachers (all of them) didn’t go to school today.Mestre sira ohin la tama eskola.
- All seven of them want to dance, but one has no partner.Sira na'in hitu hakarak dansa hotu, maibé iha ida mak kliik.