Most of those educated in Indonesia haven't mastered Portuguese. in Tetun
Sira ne'ebé formadu iha Indonézia, maioria la domina língua Portugés.
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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