To test seeds of sandalwood, soak them in water. The seeds that sink, this means they are good. in Tetun
Atu koko fini ai-kameli nian, hoban ba bee. Fini ne'ebé mout, ne'e kerdizer di'ak.
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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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- Did you scrub the nappies, or just soak them in soapy water and then take them out to dry?Neras ne'e ó kose ka, hoban de'it iha omu been foti ba habai ona?!
- 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 were angry at each other, to the extent that they each looked for rocks and threw them at each other.Sira hirus malu to'o ida-ida buka fatuk hodi tuda 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.
- They detected fraud by means of an audit.Sira deteta fraude liu hosi audit.
- I hope I can again meet them in good health.Ha'u espera katak ha'u bele hasoru fali sira iha kondisaun ne'ebé saudavel.