I trust José because he is an honest man. in Tetun
Ha'u fiar ba José tanba nia ema ne'ebé onestu.
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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.
- Now you have a bad reputation, because you are a married man are dating a single girl.Agora ó nia naran fo'er, tanba ó kaben na'in maibé ó namora fali feto klosan.
- I don’t really trust that man. Just looking at his face we already know (he’s not trustworthy).Ha'u ladún konfia katuas ne'e, haree nia oin de'it mós ita hatene ona.
- The mother aborted her baby in the womb just because the man refused to take responsibility (for the baby).Inan ida estraga labarik iha kabun laran tan de'it mane lakohi tau matan.
- People used to respect of you because you worked honestly, but now you have a bad reputation because you stole.Uluk ema respeitu ó tanba ó servisu ho onestu, maibé agora ó nia naran aat ona tanba ó na'ok.
- She married a Manatuto man.Nia hola mane Manatuto.