We had no time to cook, so just chewed uncooked dried cassava. in Tetun
Ami la iha tempu atu te'in, nune'e ami ruun matak de'it ai-fariña maran.
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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
- Madalena blew on her hand which had just had hot water touch it.Madalena huu nia liman ida ohin bee manas kona.
- Last night I intended to study, but had no books, so I just had a rest.Hori-kalan ha'u atu estuda, maibé la iha livru, entaun ha'u deskansa de'it.
- Does the teacher teach full-time or part-time?Mestre hanorin full-time ka part-time?
- He just plays around all the time (he doesn't work).Nia loron-kalan halimar de'it.
- 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.
- You're just sitting there like a boss, not working, just waiting to be fed!Ó tuur hanesan bos de'it, la hatene halo servisu, hein han de'it!