Last night Lino was drunk because he drank so much at the wedding. in Tetun
Hori kalan Lino tua lanu tanba nia hemu barak loos iha festa kazamentu.
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Grammar in this phrase
Intensifiers
Intensifiers (loos, tebes, demais, laduun)
loosPosition matters. 'loos' / 'tebes' / 'demais' follow the adjective ('barak loos' = very many). 'laduun' PRECEDES the adjective ('laduun diak' = not very good). 'liu tan' = even more.
Possession
nia / nian — possession
nia'nia' goes BEFORE the thing possessed; 'nian' goes AFTER. Both function the same way; position decides which form. 'nia' is also the 3rd-person pronoun (he / she / it) — disambiguate by position.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
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- Hori kalan rai nakdoko, ami hotu halai saruntu malu ba li'ur, to'o avoo monu hanehan tan ha'u nia alin.Last night there was an earthquake, and we all stampeded out of the house, so much so that grandma fell on top of my younger brother.
- Hori kalan ami haree televizaun.Last night we watched television.
- Kalan ami toba la dukur, tanba hanoin barak.At night we can’t sleep, because we are worried.
- Ha'u horikalan haree kois de'it Quina iha merkadu Taibesi.Last night I glimpsed Quina in the Taibesi market.