How come a greedy woman ends up marrying a good man like Melki! in Tetun
Feto karak-teen hola loos mane ida di'ak hanesan Melki ne'e!
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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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Related phrases
- You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman.Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.
- Within a family, it's not the case that the woman is inferior and the man is like a commander who just gives orders.Iha família laran, la'ós feto atu sai inferiór no mane atu sai hanesan komandante hodi manda de'it.
- Good grief! Why didn't he come!Pora! Nusaa mak ohin nia la mai?!
- I like to drink guava juice, as it is good for our body.Ha'u gosta hemu jus goiava, tanba di'ak ba ita nia isin.
- I like attending mass in this church because there is a good preacher.Ha'u gosta tuir misa iha igreja ida ne'e tanba iha haklaken na'in ida ne'ebé di'ak.
- This man had evil intentions towards the young woman, to do bad to her.Mane ne'e hanoin aat ba menina ne'e hodi halo aat hasoru nia.