Uncle pours honey into the bottle, then stoppers up the bottle with corn husk. in Tetun
Tiu fui bani been ba botir, depois sulan botir ho batar kain.
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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
- Some older women say, if you have swollen glands, then you should take a (cob of) corn and swirl it around the gland seven times. Then smash the corn, or else throw it to the pigs to eat.Ferik balu dehan, se sukaer musan kona, entaun foti batar kose hadulas dala hitu. Depois tuku rahun tiha batar ne'e, se lae, hodi batar ne'e soe tiha ba fahi han.
- How many types of corn did you plant? - We planted two types: ‘quick’ corn and ‘big’ corn.Imi kuda batar oin hira? - Ami kuda oin rua: batar lais ho batar boot.
- When my father was about to smoke, he would always get some corn husk and use it to roll tobacco (into a cigarette).Ha'u nia apá uluk atu fuma, sempre foti batar kulit hodi lulun tabaku.
- Uncle brings kerosene from Indonesia into Timor illegally.Tiu hatama mina rai hosi Indonézia mai Timor ho ílegál.
- Distract the child into sleeping first, and then you can eat.Habosok labarik toba tiha lai mak ó han.
- Uncle Peu carries magic charms to attract women into falling in love with him.Tiu Peu ne'e lori maninga hodi dada feto sira laran monu ba nia.