When Indonesia first came in (invaded), we all ran away to the forests. in Tetun
Indonézia tama fo-foun, ami hotu halai ba ai-laran.
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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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- When Indonesia invaded in 1975, many of the people fled to the forests.Bainhira Indonézia halo invazaun iha 1975, povu barak halai ba ai-laran.
- When the first rains of the wet season come, the children all like playing in the rain.Bainhira udan foin monu rai, labarik sira hotu gosta hariis udan.
- Today many horses came and ate all the corn in Tina’s garden. Now their owner has to repay her.Ohin kuda barak mai han hotu mana Tina nia batar iha toos laran, kuda nia na'in tenke selu fali.
- Yesterday when the young people created trouble in our neighbourhood, the police came straight away to deal with it.Horiseik joven sira halo problema iha ami nia bairu, polísia mai atua kedas.
- We all stayed there.Ami hotu hela iha ne'ebá.
- They're all beautiful!Sira oin bonita tan-tanan!