The leadership didn't allocate money to pay the staff. Of course this gave rise to problems! in Tetun
Lideransa la aloka osan atu selu funsionáriu. Naturalmente ida ne'e hamosu problema!
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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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- In the past, before there was money, Antonio gave money in exchange for Maria's rice.Iha tempu uluk, osan seidauk iha, Antonio fó manu troka ho Maria nia fós.
- I didn't get any money at all!Ha'u la hetan doit metan ida!
- How can we get money to pay for schooling?Oinsá mak ita bele hetan osan atu selu eskola?
- I gave (him) a dollar, and he gave me fifty cents change.Ha'u fó $1, nia volta fali 50c.
- When his father didn't give him money he just cried intensely.Nia aman la fó osan nia ne'e mak nia tanis halo bulak rai tiha de'it ne'e.
- I gave him phone credit for free, but he still didn’t call me.Ha'u fó nia pulsa saugati, maibé nia nafatin la telefone ha'u.