In 1980 they planned a revolt by all the civil guards in Timor, but the Indonesian arrested them. in Tetun
Iha tinan 1980 sira halo planu atu hansip hotu iha Timor laran halo revolta, maibé Indonézia kaer fali 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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- They all ate until they were satisfied. Having eaten, they went their separate ways.Sira hotu han to'o bosu. Han tiha, sira mós fahe malu.
- They are all rich. Nevertheless, they refused to help us.Sira hotu riku. Maski nune'e, sira lakoi ajuda ami.
- The mangoes on the farm are all ripe, we’re about to go and hook them (to pick them).Haas iha toos lar tasak hotu ona, ami atu bá kait.
- They were angry at each other, to the extent that they each looked for rocks and threw them at each other.Sira hirus malu to'o ida-ida buka fatuk hodi tuda malu.
- They are all on strike because the boss didn’t pay them according to the standards put out by the government.Sira hotu mogok servisu tanba patraun selu sira la tuir tuir estandar ne'ebé governu fó sai.
- They are just opportunists. In the past when it was hard, they fled overseas, but now they have come back seeking positions in the government.Sira ne'e oportunista de'it. Uluk rai susar, sira halai sai ba rai li'ur, maibé agora sira mai fali buka pozisaun iha governu.