This nail is too tight to loosen with a hammer, perhaps you can use a long-handled one. in Tetun
Pregu ne'e toos liu atu losu ho martelu, karik bele losu ho ai-suak bibi ain.
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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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Related phrases
- Perhaps he'll come, perhaps he won't.Di'ak ida nia mai, di'ak ida la mai.
- Son, hand me the salt so I can use it.Oan, lolo masin mai ha'u atu ha'u bele uza.
- My father bought a nail to nail the table.Pai hola pregu hodi prega meza.
- We use this car for ourselves (i.e. for private use).Ami uza kareta ne'e ba ami nia an.
- Perhaps he was the one who told that story. I didn’t.Kala nia mak konta istória ne'e. Ha'u lae.
- Move over closer to me, so that other people can sit too.Tuur duka mai, para ema seluk mós bele tuur.