Maria is wearing black in mourning for her mother who died six months ago. in Tetun
Maria sei lutu ba nia inan ne'ebé mate funan neen liu bá.
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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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- Maria keeps hassling her mother (to give her) money.Maria sateia hela de'it nia amá tanba osan.
- Our own mother died a long time ago, so it is our adoptive mother who looks after us.Ami nia inan rasik mate kleur ona, nune'e ami nia inan hakiak mak tau matan ba ami.
- A child cried very loudly because her mother hit her.Labarik ida tanis hakilar maka'as loos tanba nia mamá baku.
- Maria has started a study group at her house together with her friends.Maria halo grupu estudu iha ninia uma hamutuk ho nia kolega sira.
- Joana yanked on Maria’s hair this morning because of Maria swore at her.Ohin dadeer Joana rakut Maria nia fuuk tanba Maria tolok nia.
- Her boyfriend bled her dry till she didn't even have five cents left on her!Nia namoradu ne'e hais nia to'o lima sén mós la iha nia isin!