In that place there were lots of mosquitoes, but we had no mosquito nets, so we built a tree house to sleep in. in Tetun
Iha fatin ne'e, susuk barak teb-tebes, muskiteiru la iha, entaun ami halo uma iha ai-leten hodi toba ba.
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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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- Last week there was heavy rain. Even now there is water pooled in front of the house, leading to an increase in mosquitoes.Semana liu ba udan boot. To'o agora bee nalihun iha uma oin, halo susuk barak tan de'it.
- STAE released a statement that the election had involved errors but that there had been no manipulation.STAE hasai esteitmentu katak eleisaun ne'e iha sala maibé la iha manipulasaun.
- I see lots of nests in the tree.Ha'u haree manu knuuk iha ai-leten barak.
- Look up, there are lots of white clouds.Haree ba leten, kalohan mutin barak loos.
- I’m feeling very sleepy, and had better sleep.Ha'u sente matan dukur loos, di'ak liu toba lai.
- This house is no good. The one over there is lovely.Uma ida ne'e la di'ak ida. Ida ne'ebá kapás.