This is my phone, the one there is yours. in Tetun
Ne'e ha'u nia telefone, ida ne'ebá ó nian.
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Possession
nia / nian — possession
nianian'nia' goes BEFORE the thing possessed; 'nian' goes AFTER. Both function the same way; position decides which form. 'nia' is also the 3rd-person pronoun (he / she / it) — disambiguate by position.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Uma ida ne'e la di'ak ida. Ida ne'ebá kapás.This house is no good. The one over there is lovely.
- Labarik sira iha hotu. Só ida de'it mak falta.The children were all present; there was only one who was absent.
- Totál estudante iha eskola ne'e sentu í ún pesoas.The total number of students in this school is one hundred and one.
- Família ne'e mate mohu iha funu, nia jerasaun ida mós la hela.That family all died in the war, there wasn’t even one descendant left.
- Ha'u koir hela pulsa atu enxe ba telefone, para telefone ba ferik lai.I scrape off the phone recharge card to top up my phone, so I can call my mother.
- Ita halo funu durante 24 anus, la'ós insusesu de'it, susesu mós iha.During those 24 years that we fought, there weren't just failures, there were also successes.