I swear, I’m not lying to you! in Tetun
Ha'u jura ne'e, la bosok ita ida sá!
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Grammar in this phrase
Negation
la — 'not' (general negation)
laPlaced before verbs and adjectives to negate them. For contrastive 'not X but Y' use 'laós'; for 'not yet' use 'seidauk'; for 'no longer' wrap 'la ... ona' around the verb.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Fahi luut iha tahu laran.The pig is lying in the mud.
- Mariano toba hela iha kama leten mak telefone malu ho nia doben.Mariano is lying on the bed ringing his girlfriend.
- Horiseik ami haree karau barak hoku hela iha debu ne'e.Yesterday we saw lots of buffalo lying in this wallow.
- Se ó ko'alia liafuan aat ba ó nia amá, sei kona malisan.If you swear at your mother, you will be under a curse.
- Antes atu hahú ezame, alunus ida-idak hateke meti-metin kadernu ne'ebé latan iha meza leten.Before starting the exam, each of the pupils looked fixedly at the notebooks lying on their tables.