What sport do you like playing? in Tetun
Desportu saida mak ita gosta halimar?
English → Tetun phrasebook
Grammar in this phrase
Focus
mak — focus marker
mak'mak' focuses the preceding constituent — used when English would bold or cleft ('it was X who...'). Also forms the superlative with 'liu'.
More patterns like these in the Tetun grammar guide.
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Related phrases
- Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman.
- Labarik foin-sa'e sira agora gosta liu halimar Facebook.Young people these days really like playing around in Facebook.
- Labarik barak la gosta halimar ho Pedro tanba nia atitude la di'ak.Lots of children don’t like playing with Pedro because his behaviour isn’t good.
- Bainhira udan foin monu rai, labarik sira hotu gosta hariis udan.When the first rains of the wet season come, the children all like playing in the rain.
- Istória ne'ebé nia hakerek ne'e, ha'u gosta nia tópiku, maibé la gosta nia maneira narasaun.This story that he's written, I like the topic, but don't like his style of story-telling.
- La bele ko'alia nune'e!Don’t talk like that!