Foreigner Mateus eloped with a girl to his homeland. They were a couple for two years before her family knew where she was. in Tetun
Malae Mateus lori halai feto ba nia rain. Sira na'in rua hola malu tinan rua ona mak foin feto nia família hatene nia iha ne'ebé.
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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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