In the past, before there was money, Antonio gave money in exchange for Maria's rice. in Tetun
Iha tempu uluk, osan seidauk iha, Antonio fó manu troka ho Maria nia fós.
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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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- Auntie mills rice in a (rice) mill.Tia dulas hare uza mákina.
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