We live in a thatched-roof house with walls made from palm-leaf stalks. in Tetun
Ami hela iha uma du'ut didin ho piku.
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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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- Dad made the walls of the house using corrugated iron.Apá halo uma nia didin uza kaleen.
- Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, so let's go and cut palm branches in Dare.Aban Domingu Ramus, ita bá taa ramus iha Dare.
- We need a temporary house to stay in until we can build our own house.Ita presiza uma provizóriu ida atu hela to'o ita bele harii ita nia uma rasik.
- The roof of that house is leaking. Please repair it so that when it rains, water won’t go in.Uma ne'ebá ne'e nia kakuluk kuak hela, favór hadi'a para udan karik la bele tama.
- On Palm Sunday, priests sprinkle water on the palm leaves which the congregation have brought.Iha Domingu Ramus padre sira hisik bee ba ramus tahan ne'ebé mak sarani sira lori.
- My neighbours built high walls around their house because they are afraid of thieves getting in.Ami nia viziñu halo moru hale'u uma tanba ta'uk na'ok-teen bele tama.