(During the guerirlla war) we had to transform our strategic inferiority into tactical superiority. in Tetun
Ita tenke transforma ita nia inferioridade tátika ba iha superioridade estratéjika.
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Grammar in this phrase
Possession
nia / nian — possession
nia'nia' goes BEFORE the thing possessed; 'nian' goes AFTER. Both function the same way; position decides which form. 'nia' is also the 3rd-person pronoun (he / she / it) — disambiguate by position.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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- Ema rihun-rahun mak mate iha tempu funu nian.Thousands of people died during the war.
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