During the 2006 crisis some people said, "The common people chase death, the leaders chase seats (of power)." in Tetun
Iha krize 2006 ema balu dehan, "Povu duni kaixaun, boot sira duni kadeira."
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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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- Some people like bitter gourd, some don’t.Ema balu gosta baria, balu la gosta.
- The crisis created by the leaders is dividing the people.Krize ne'ebé ukun na'in sira kria hafahe povu rai ne'e.
- Some senior people who work in the parliament swindle the people of their money.Ema boot servisu iha parlamentu, balu han matak povu nia osan.
- When people conduct civic education, they teach the people about political affairs, and also about the rights and responsibilities of the people, to raise their political awareness.Kuandu ema hala'o edukasaun sívika, sira hanorin povu kona ba lia polítiku nian, no mós kona ba direitu no responsabilidade reinu nian, atu foti povu nia konsiénsia polítiku.
- If our leaders have a strong inferiority complex, it is difficult for them to defend the interests of the people, because they don't have the courage to oppose people from other groups.Se ita nia lider iha kompleksu dé inferioridade maka'as, sei susar tebes defende interese povu nian, tanba la brani kontra ema hosi grupu seluk.
- Thousands of people died during the war.Ema rihun-rahun mak mate iha tempu funu nian.