One of my female friends committed suicide because her husband took another wife. in Tetun
Ha'u nia kolega feto ida oho an tanba nia la'en hola fali feto seluk.
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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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Related phrases
- 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.
- 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!
- Auntie got into the minibus and held her niece on her lap because the minibus was full of people.Tia sa'e mikrolét hiti de'it nia subriña tanba ema nakonu.
- He'd already married one, then went and too another as his mistress. In the end the two women fought because of him!Nia kaben tiha ida, bá kait fali ida seluk. To'o ikus feto na'in rua baku malu tanba nia!
- When cuddling this infant don't shake her too much, else she might burp up her milk, because she's just had a big feed.Ko'us labarik keta doko demais, se lae nia bele mura tanba nia foin han bosu loos.