Don’t walk barefoot, or you could cut your foot. in Tetun
La bele la'o ain tanan, se lae ain bele kanek.
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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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- Just walk on the banks, don't walk in the rice bay.La'o iha kabubu leten de'it, keta tama iha laran.
- Don’t annoy the dog. It could bite you.Keta book asu. Asu bele tata ó.
- 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 play with the lighter! The flame could burn your eyes!Keta halimar iskeiru! Ahi lakan bele kona ó nia matan!
- If we don’t cut down this mango tree, its roots will damage our house.Se ita la tesi haas huun ne'e, nia abut sei estraga ita nia uma.
- Be careful, the ground is slippery! If you walk on it, you could fall.Kuidadu, rai ne'e namdoras! Ita sama, bele monu.