During the campaign you promised all sorts of things, but these haven't happened. in Tetun
Uluk iha kampaña ó ko'alia fun-funan loos, maibé agora la realiza.
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Intensifiers
Intensifiers (loos, tebes, demais, laduun)
loosPosition matters. 'loos' / 'tebes' / 'demais' follow the adjective ('barak loos' = very many). 'laduun' PRECEDES the adjective ('laduun diak' = not very good). 'liu tan' = even more.
Negation
la — 'not' (general negation)
laPlaced before verbs and adjectives to negate them. For contrastive 'not X but Y' use 'laós'; for 'not yet' use 'seidauk'; for 'no longer' wrap 'la ... ona' around the verb.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Tia Berta promete katak nia sei oho karau ida iha tempu Finadu.Auntie Berta promised that she would kill a cow during for All Souls' Day.
- Ohin loron Dili modernu liu, no ema nia matan kaan buat hotu-hotu.These days Dili is overly modern, and people desire to have all sorts of things.
- Durante tempu okupasaun Indonézia nian, Timor oan barak nia ruin naklekar iha fat-fatin.During the Indonesian occupation, the bones of many Timorese were scattered all over the place.
- Sira konvida ema boboot mai iha festa ne'e.They invited all sorts of important people to this party (e.g. from the government, army, and NGOs).
- Sr. Carlos husu ba militante ho simpatizante Fretilín nian hodi tuir hotu kampaña aban iha Lospalos vila.Mr. Carlos called for all Fretilin party members and sympathisers to attend the campaign tomorrow in Lospalos town.
- Sira servisu hamutuk hodi kaer metin prinsípiu moris ida katak, "Todan leba hamutuk, kmaan ita hi'it hamutuk."They worked together, holding firmly to the life principle that, "We carry heavy things together, we lift light things together."