They can speak ('know') Portuguese. in Tetun
Sira hatene Portugés.
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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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- If we don't know how to cook bitter beans, they can poison and kill us.Koto moruk, ita te'in la hatene bele lanu mate ita.
- 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.
- It is the duty of teachers to help their students to know things that they don’t yet know.Mestre ho mestra sira nia devér mak lori estudante atu hatene saida mak sira seidauk hatene.
- 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.
- They pretended not to know.Sira finje la hatene.
- Do you ('sir') speak Portuguese?Señór ko'alia Portugés ka?