In the distant past, before the continents all separated, there was a super-continent. in Tetun
Uluk liu, kontinente hotu-hotu seidauk fahe malu, iha super kontinente ida.
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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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- In the past, before there was money, Antonio gave money in exchange for Maria's rice.Iha tempu uluk, osan seidauk iha, Antonio fó manu troka ho Maria nia fós.
- We all stayed there.Ami hotu hela iha ne'ebá.
- Before the war erupted, we all escaped to Darwin.Antes dé funu tama, ami halai hotu ba Darwin.
- He kicked the ball, and it fell all the way over there!Nia tebe bola, monu ó! iha ne'ebá!
- We all have difficult pasts. But we mustn’t live in this past.Ita hotu iha pasadu ne'ebé susar. Maibé la bele moris iha pasadu ne'e.
- The children were all present; there was only one who was absent.Labarik sira iha hotu. Só ida de'it mak falta.