I'll buy a bundle of betel pepper leaves so that I can offer betel nut to the old ladies. in Tetun
Ha'u sosa lai malus futun ida para bele look ferik sira.
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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
- Auntie wove a betel container to keep her betel nut and betel pepper in.Tia homan mama fatin para atu tau nia bua malus iha laran.
- Hey, you rotter! Can't you even go and get my betel pepper?!Hoi, rai han ida nenee! Bá hola lai ha'u nia malus la bele ga?!
- Mum always chews betetlnut. When she has no betel pepper, she sends me to buy some.Amá mama dór malus. Kuandu malus la iha, nia haruka ha'u bá hola.
- Sara is old, and can no longer fall pregnant.Sara ferik ona, la bele ko'us ona.
- Buy a sack of rice so that (it can be enough) to eat for a month.Sosa foos saka para ita han to'o fulan ida.
- Petroleum can be a blessing to a nation, but can also become a curse.Mina rai bele sai bénsaun ba nasaun, maibé bele mós sai malisan.