The police captured one suspect and detained him in a cell for 72 hours. in Tetun
Polísia kaptura suspeitu ida hodi detein nia iha sela durante oras 72.
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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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- Don’t deny you friend like this, as one day you’ll need him.Ó la bele nega ó nia kolega hanesan ne'e, tempu ida sei presiza nia.
- This guy is a criminal. Wherever he goes the police recognise him.Buatamak ne'e kriminozu ida, nia bá iha fatin-fatin polísia koñese hotu nia.
- The total number of students in this school is one hundred and one.Totál estudante iha eskola ne'e sentu í ún pesoas.
- He'd already married one, then went and too another as his mistress. In the end the two women fought because of him!Nia kaben tiha ida, bá kait fali ida seluk. To'o ikus feto na'in rua baku malu tanba nia!
- I ordered one beer.Hau hameno serveja ida.
- Yesterday I rang him..Horiseik ha'u telefone nia.