I would like to buy a Canon camera but I don’t have enough money. in Tetun
Ha'u hakarak atu sosa kamera Canon ida maibé osan la iha.
English → Tetun phrasebook
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
- Ami aluga uma tanba la iha osan atu sosa.We rent a house because we don’t have money to buy one.
- Istória ne'ebé nia hakerek ne'e, ha'u gosta nia tópiku, maibé la gosta nia maneira narasaun.This story that he's written, I like the topic, but don't like his style of story-telling.
- Ropa fa'an iha Timor Plaza karun demais, ita nia osan la to'o atu sosa.Clothes sold at Timor Plaza are too expensive. We don’t have enough money to purchase them.
- La bele ko'alia nune'e!Don’t talk like that!
- Ha'u ladún gosta ida ne'e.I don’t like this one very much.
- Ami la gosta haree televizaun.We don’t like watching television.