While I was standing, Abreu came and tapped me (on the shoulder), giving me a surprise. in Tetun
Ha'u hamriik hela, Abreu mai kebit fali ha'u, halo ha'u hakfodak.
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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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