Her arm was swollen as a bee bit it. in Tetun
Nia liman bubu tanba banin mak tata.
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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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- Her boyfriend bled her dry till she didn't even have five cents left on her!Nia namoradu ne'e hais nia to'o lima sén mós la iha nia isin!
- Auntie stuck her hairpin through her hair.Tia sikat ulsuku iha fuuk.
- She cried and cried till her eyes were swollen.Nia tanis to'o matan bubu.
- Maria keeps hassling her mother (to give her) money.Maria sateia hela de'it nia amá tanba osan.
- A child cried very loudly because her mother hit her.Labarik ida tanis hakilar maka'as loos tanba nia mamá baku.
- This kid really works at her schooling, we should support her.Labarik ne'e fó ulun eskola, di'ak liu ita suporta nia.