Do you eat or not?! You’re so skinny! in Tetun
Han ga lae mak isin krekas maran hanesan ne'e!
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Focus
mak — focus marker
mak'mak' focuses the preceding constituent — used when English would bold or cleft ('it was X who...'). Also forms the superlative with 'liu'.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Han ga lae mak ne'e, ó nia isin ruin maran loos hanesan ne'e!Don’t you eat? You look extremely skinny!
- La bele han ai-fuan ne'e lai, tanba sei tara hela horok. Aban liurai sei hasai horok mak bele han.You can't eat the fruit yet, because it is still under the horok taboo. You can only eat the fruit once the king removes the horok.
- Mai ita han ona.Let’s eat now.
- Han tan!Eat some more!
- Atoi hakarak han batar.Atoi wants to eat corn.
- Koá dose baluk ida fó ha'u han.Cut me a piece of cake to eat.