The old drunkard man came asking for booze. Don’t give him any! in Tetun
Katuas lanu-teen mai atu husu tua. Lalika fó!
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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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- Delia is sickly. Don’t give her any heavy work.Delia moras atan. La bele husu nia kaer servisu todan.
- A friend wants to borrow our car, but I don’t want to give it to him.Ita nia kareta ne'e kolega atu empresta, maibé ha'u lakohi fó.
- My daughter Joana is very spoiled. If we don’t give her any money, she refuses to go to school.Ha'u nia oan feto Joana ne'e maña liu. se ita la fó osan nia lakohi bá eskola.
- This morning an old man fell off his motorbike in Colmera. Many people gathered around and helped take him to hospital.Ohin dadeer katuas ida monu ho motór iha Colmera. Ema barak hobur no ajuda nia lori ba ospitál.
- I don’t know. Try asking Pedro.Ha'u la hatene. Husu to'ok Pedro.
- It was my fault. Don't blame him!Ne'e ha'u nia sala. Keta fó todan ba nia!