My younger siters has just started first year in Fatumea Primary School. in Tetun
Ha'u nia alin foin tama primeiru anu iha Eskola Báziku Fatumea.
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Possession
nia / nian — possession
nia'nia' goes BEFORE the thing possessed; 'nian' goes AFTER. Both function the same way; position decides which form. 'nia' is also the 3rd-person pronoun (he / she / it) — disambiguate by position.
Time expressions
Temporal connectors
foinCommon time words: 'bainhira / kuandu' = when; 'molok / antes' = before; 'depois' and 'liu tiha' = after; 'kedas' = immediately; 'foin' = only just, very recently; 'kleur' = a long time.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Liu tiha tinan ida, Maria pasa ba segundu anu ensinu sekundáriu.After a year, Maria went up a grade to the second year of secondary school.
- Ha'u foin komesa aprende Tetun.I have only just started learning Tetun.
- Ha'u nia oan feto ikun seidauk tama eskola.My youngest daughter has not yet started school.
- Labarik sira fila hosi eskola, gosta halimar de'it.When the children return from school, they like to just play.
- Timor-leste troka ona ninia tinan fiskál ba tinan kalendáriu nian.Timor-Leste has changed its fiscal year to be the calendar year.
- Sira foin tama servisu ne'e, sira dependente loos ba konselleiru.When they first started this work, they were very dependent on advisors.