Look at the calendar! This month there are no holidays. in Tetun
Haree ba kalendáriu! Fulan ida ne'e la iha feriadu.
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Negation
la — 'not' (general negation)
laPlaced before verbs and adjectives to negate them. For contrastive 'not X but Y' use 'laós'; for 'not yet' use 'seidauk'; for 'no longer' wrap 'la ... ona' around the verb.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Haree ba leten, kalohan mutin barak loos.Look up, there are lots of white clouds.
- Ita halo funu durante 24 anus, la'ós insusesu de'it, susesu mós iha.During those 24 years that we fought, there weren't just failures, there were also successes.
- Se ó hakarak buka versíkulu iha Bíblia kona ba liurai Batseba, fasil liu buka iha konkordánsia.If you want to look for verses in the Bible about queen Bathsheba, it's easiest to look for them in a concordance.
- Semana liu ba udan boot. To'o agora bee nalihun iha uma oin, halo susuk barak tan de'it.Last week there was heavy rain. Even now there is water pooled in front of the house, leading to an increase in mosquitoes.
- Hahán iha ka?Is there any food?
- Ami hotu hela iha ne'ebá.We all stayed there.