The canoe was about to sink - it nearly sank but didn't. in Tetun
Bero atu mout sal-sala - atu mout la mout.
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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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- When people conduct civic education, they teach the people about political affairs, and also about the rights and responsibilities of the people, to raise their political awareness.Kuandu ema hala'o edukasaun sívika, sira hanorin povu kona ba lia polítiku nian, no mós kona ba direitu no responsabilidade reinu nian, atu foti povu nia konsiénsia polítiku.
- I didn't go!Ha'u la bá ida!
- He/she didn't bathe.Nia la hariis.
- He asked about school.Nia husu kona ba eskola.
- I didn't get any money at all!Ha'u la hetan doit metan ida!
- Good grief! Why didn't he come!Pora! Nusaa mak ohin nia la mai?!