We chased the thief but were unable to catch up. in Tetun
Ami duni na'ok-teen la toman.
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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 went to catch shrimps in the river to bring home and cook them .Ami bá kaer boek iha mota laran hodi lori bá uma halo modo.
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