If you keep wagging school, you won’t know anything when it comes to the exam! in Tetun
Se ó falta eskola beibeik, to'o ezame ó la hatene buat ida!
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Grammar in this phrase
Conditionals
se / karik — conditionals
se'se' opens a definite conditional ('if X, then Y'). 'karik' sits at the end of a clause and hedges it ('perhaps'); it can also mark an uncertain conditional.
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
- Labarik ne'e loroloron mai eskola, maibé beik nafatin.This child comes to school every day, but still doesn’t learn.
- Motór ne'e, ha'u tebe tebe nia starta, la moris.I keep trying to kick-start this motorbike, but it won't start.
- Mestre ho mestra sira nia devér mak lori estudante atu hatene saida mak sira seidauk hatene.It is the duty of teachers to help their students to know things that they don’t yet know.
- Uluk iha eskola, ami tenke dekor diálogu oioin ho lian Fransa. Balu ha'u sei hatene to'o agora.When (we) were at school, we had to memorise various dialogues in French. Some I still know now.
- Ita presiza buat ruma ka?Do you need anything?
- Nia husu kona ba eskola.He asked about school.