There was a landslide on the road, so we couldn’t go past by car. in Tetun
Rai monu iha estrada, halo ita liu ho kareta la di'ak.
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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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- This car is my private car, not a government one.Kareta ne'e ha'u nian privadu, la'ós estadu nian.
- If someone walks past on the road, our dog always barks.Se ema ida la'o liu iha estrada, ami nia asu sempre hatenu.
- The car shakes/bounces around because the road is rough.Kareta nakdoko tanba dalan aat.
- Once there was a landslide in Tutuala which killed two people.Uluk rai halai iha Tutuala halo ema na'in rua mate.
- I’m looking for a place to park my car, but there are no (free) spaces.Ha'u buka fatin atu para ha'u nia kareta, maibé la iha espasu.
- In Lospalos there are very many caves. In the past people used to live in them.Iha Lospalos fatuk kuak barak loos. Tempu uluk ema hela iha laran.