Our monthly income is three hundred dollars. s in Tetun
Ful-fulan, ami nia osan tama dolar atus tolu.
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.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Ami nia rendimentu fulan ida ne'e mínimu liu: dolar limanulu de'it!.Our minimum income for this month was very low: only fifty dollars!
- Livru ne'e iha pájina atus tolu.This book has three hundred pages.
- Ne'e dolar rihun ida atus lima.This is one thousand five hundred dollars.
- Iha ami nia aldeia ami uza jeradór bainhira presiza karega telefone.In our village, we use a generator to charge our phones.
- Ha'u iha osan sein dolar atu bá sosa ropa festa nian ba ita hotu.I have a hundred dollars to buy party clothes for all of us.
- Partisipante iha ami nia kursu Inglés kuaze atus rua.There are almost two hundred participants in our English course.