Some older women say, if you have swollen glands, then you should take a (cob of) corn and swirl it around the gland seven times. Then smash the corn, or else throw it to the pigs to eat. in Tetun
Ferik balu dehan, se sukaer musan kona, entaun foti batar kose hadulas dala hitu. Depois tuku rahun tiha batar ne'e, se lae, hodi batar ne'e soe tiha ba fahi han.
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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
- Build a fence around the garden so that animals can’t come in and eat the corn.Halo lutu hale'u toos para animál la bele tama mai han batar.
- When you go to someone else’s country you should take a map, so you won’t get lost.Imi atu bá ema nia rai tenke lori mapa, para la bele lakon.
- How many types of corn did you plant? - We planted two types: ‘quick’ corn and ‘big’ corn.Imi kuda batar oin hira? - Ami kuda oin rua: batar lais ho batar boot.
- hangs a woven basket (by a strap around her forehead) to take it to the farm to harvest corn.Avoo feto ne'e tara bote lori ba toos atu silu batar.
- Eat some more!Han tan!
- Atoi wants to eat corn.Atoi hakarak han batar.