Use paper to wrap the present before you give it. in Tetun
Uza surat tahan hodi falun prezente molok atu fó.
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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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- We use this car for ourselves (i.e. for private use).Ami uza kareta ne'e ba ami nia an.
- Doctors use syringes to give the children injections.Doutór sira uza seringa hodi sona labarik ho ai-moruk.
- Use this toothbrush to brush your teeth well before going to sleep.Uza eskova nehan ida ne'e hodi kose nehan didi'ak molok toba.
- This teacher is greedy. Only if we give money does he give us good marks.Mestre ne'e matan osan; ita fó osan mak nia fó valór di'ak.
- Many people nowadays use gas for cooking, and don’t use firewood any more.Ema barak agora uza gás hodi te'in, no la uza ona ai-sunu.
- Just give me a little time to talk to my son before you take me to prison.Fó netik tempu ruma oituan mai ha'u atu ko'alia lai ho ha'u nia oan molok imi lori ha'u ba komarka.