Don't play with the lighter! The flame could burn your eyes! in Tetun
Keta halimar iskeiru! Ahi lakan bele kona ó nia matan!
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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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- Don’t annoy the dog. It could bite you.Keta book asu. Asu bele tata ó.
- Don’t walk barefoot, or you could cut your foot.La bele la'o ain tanan, se lae ain bele kanek.
- Don't extend their contract, because they don't work well!La bele hanaruk tan sira nia kontratu, tanba sira servisu la di'ak!
- Don’t tease this person. If he loses his temper, he could beat you up.Ó keta goza ema ne'e, nia raan nakali ona bele baku ita.
- Don’t arbitrarily accuse people if you don’t know the problem in-depth.Keta naran du'un ema karik ita la hatene problema ne'e nia lala'ok.
- Don’t hang out with the drunkards. Otherwise, you could become a drunkard too.La bele ranxu ho ema lanu-teen sira. Se lae, ó mós bele sai lanu-teen hotu.