They are all on strike because the boss didn’t pay them according to the standards put out by the government. in Tetun
Sira hotu mogok servisu tanba patraun selu sira la tuir tuir estandar ne'ebé governu fó sai.
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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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- They all ate until they were satisfied. Having eaten, they went their separate ways.Sira hotu han to'o bosu. Han tiha, sira mós fahe malu.
- They are just opportunists. In the past when it was hard, they fled overseas, but now they have come back seeking positions in the government.Sira ne'e oportunista de'it. Uluk rai susar, sira halai sai ba rai li'ur, maibé agora sira mai fali buka pozisaun iha governu.
- The teachers (all of them) didn’t go to school today.Mestre sira ohin la tama eskola.
- They are all rich. Nevertheless, they refused to help us.Sira hotu riku. Maski nune'e, sira lakoi ajuda ami.
- Your clothes are all wet; you’d better hang them out to dry.Ó nia ropa bokon hotu, di'ak liu habai tiha.
- They are not doing their work properly because they received bribes.Sira servisu oin la moos hotu tanba simu subornu.