Martinho went to collect money from those who had borrowed from him. in Tetun
Martinho bá kobra nia osan iha ema ne'ebé deve nia.
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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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- They brought him to Dare, and he went to school there.Sira lori nia ba Dare, í nia eskola iha ne'ebá.
- People accused him saying it was he who had killed the child.Ema fó sala ba nia dehan nia mak oho labarik ne'e.
- When his father didn't give him money he just cried intensely.Nia aman la fó osan nia ne'e mak nia tanis halo bulak rai tiha de'it ne'e.
- Madalena blew on her hand which had just had hot water touch it.Madalena huu nia liman ida ohin bee manas kona.
- Last night I intended to study, but had no books, so I just had a rest.Hori-kalan ha'u atu estuda, maibé la iha livru, entaun ha'u deskansa de'it.
- In the past, before there was money, Antonio gave money in exchange for Maria's rice.Iha tempu uluk, osan seidauk iha, Antonio fó manu troka ho Maria nia fós.