Tito is living in a rented room, because he has no house in Dili. in Tetun
Tito hela iha kós, tanba nia uma iha Dili la iha.
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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
- We rent a house because we don’t have money to buy one.Ami aluga uma tanba la iha osan atu sosa.
- We need a temporary house to stay in until we can build our own house.Ita presiza uma provizóriu ida atu hela to'o ita bele harii ita nia uma rasik.
- My neighbours built high walls around their house because they are afraid of thieves getting in.Ami nia viziñu halo moru hale'u uma tanba ta'uk na'ok-teen bele tama.
- My neighbour build a high wall around the house out of fear that people would throw rocks (at the house).Ha'u nia viziñu halo moru aas hale'u uma tanba ta'uk ema tuda.
- People used to respect of you because you worked honestly, but now you have a bad reputation because you stole.Uluk ema respeitu ó tanba ó servisu ho onestu, maibé agora ó nia naran aat ona tanba ó na'ok.
- I am from Dili.Ha'u hosi Dili.