Maria, can I borrow your dictionary? I’ve lost mine. in Tetun
Maria, ha'u bele empresta ita nia disionáriu ka? Ha'u nian lakon.
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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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