He’s a handsome man but has a pot belly, that looks horrible! in Tetun
Mane bonitu tiha mak kabun tasak ne'e, haree aat loos!
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Focus
mak — focus marker
mak'mak' focuses the preceding constituent — used when English would bold or cleft ('it was X who...'). Also forms the superlative with 'liu'.
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.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Alex, halo ezersísiu para hatuun tiha kabun-teek ne'e!Alex, go and do some exercise to reduce your pot belly!
- Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman.
- Nia hola mane Manatuto.She married a Manatuto man.
- Mane ne'e nia hahalok aat loos.This man has a very bad behaviour.
- Horiseik señór ida mai vizita ha'u.Yesterday a man came and visited me.
- Buli ne'e uza hodi tau kafé la'ós tau dose!This pot is for coffee, not for biscuits!