Whose rooster was crowing in the middle of the night like this? It means something is not right. in Tetun
Sé nia manu mak kokoreek iha tempu kalan boot hanesan ne'e? Buat ruma la loos ona.
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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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- You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman.Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.
- This one's mine! I have the right to use it for whatever I like.Ida ne'e ha'u nia kusta, ha'u iha direitu atu uza ba seda de'it.
- We came back in the middle of the night as we were at a friend’s party.Ami fila kalan boot tanba sei asiste kolega nia festa.
- This story that he's written, I like the topic, but don't like his style of story-telling.Istória ne'ebé nia hakerek ne'e, ha'u gosta nia tópiku, maibé la gosta nia maneira narasaun.
- We'll go when it's daytime. While it's still night like this, there are lots of bad things around.Rai loron mak ita la'o. Sei kalan hela ne'e, buat aat barak.
- Whose is this tea?Xá ne'e sé nian?