Fetch the mortar and pestle from the neighbours, to pound coffee (beans into powder). in Tetun
Foti lai lesu ho alu iha viziñu, atu fai kafé.
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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 buyer go to Ermera to purchase coffee beans and bring them down to Dili to grind into powder.Vendedór balu bá hola kafé musan iha Ermera lori mai Dili atu dulas halo uut.
- Mum fetches the pestle to pound corn.Main foti lesu ho alu atu fai batar hodi te'in.
- Go and get some powdered coffee from the shop so we can make some coffee to drink.Bá hola kafé rahun iha loja para ita halo kafé hemu.
- Fetch a tarpaulin here to cover the firewood so that the rainwater won't get into it.Foti lai lona mai satán netik ai-maran para udan been la bele kona.
- Go fetch some canarium nut, pound it fine, preparing it to later put on the coals in the incense holder.Bá foti kiar, tuku harahun, prepara orsida bá tau iha ahi klaak iha turiblu laran.
- Maria went and picked coffee today, put it in a basket, and carried it home from the coffee plantation on her back.Maria ohin ku'u kafé, tau iha bote, haklulu hosi kafé laran mai to'o iha uma.