When you are about to cut down a banyan tree, you must first move its spirit to another place. in Tetun
Bainhira atu tesi hali huun, tenke muda tiha hali na'in ba fatin ruma lai.
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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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- If we don’t cut down this mango tree, its roots will damage our house.Se ita la tesi haas huun ne'e, nia abut sei estraga ita nia uma.
- I saw a pigeon flying away from its place.Ha'u haree manu pombu semo sai hosi nia fatin.
- André fell down from a tree and died on the spot.André monu tuun hosi ai-huun no mate liu.
- He travels all over the place, with no place to live.Nia la'o lemo rai de'it, la iha fatin atu hela.
- The information about this person must be kept confidential.Informasaun kona ba ema ne'e ita tenke rai metin hanesan segredu.
- The first session in this conference is about living as a Christian.Sesaun primeiru iha konferénsia ne'e kona ba moris nu'udar ema Kristaun.