The village head said, “You’d better hide for a while, as the militia are looking for you.” So the, we did as he said. in Tetun
Xefe aldeia dehan, “Diak liu imi subar lai, tanba milísia buka hela imi.” Nune'e prontu, ami mós halo tuir.
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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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- Mr Rui nominated himself as candidate for village head of Lospalos.Sr. Rui na'in mak kandidata nia an rasik ba xefe suku Lospalos nian.
- It is the village head who will be the one who implements this project.Xefe suku mak sai implementadór ba projetu ne'e.
- This girl is cross-eyed. She is looking at us, but we think perhaps she’s looking at something else.Feto ne'e nia matan kle'uk. Nia haree hela ita maibé ita hanoin kala haree buat seluk.
- I was the one who said (that).Ha'u ma hatete.
- Ostriches just hide their heads.Manu avestrús ne'e, nia subar nia ulun de'it.
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