Yesterday my mother beat each of us because we didn't study. in Tetun
Horiseik ha'u nia inan baku ami dasa tanba ami la estuda.
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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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- They were angry at each other, to the extent that they each looked for rocks and threw them at each other.Sira hirus malu to'o ida-ida buka fatuk hodi tuda malu.
- A child cried very loudly because her mother hit her.Labarik ida tanis hakilar maka'as loos tanba nia mamá baku.
- Yesterday the teacher didn't turn up, so we went home early.Horiseik mestre la tama be ami fila sedu tiha.
- We can’t study effectively because the children are so noisy.Ami estuda la di'ak tanba labarik sira estrundu loos.
- Paulo did not pass the national exam because he didn’t prepare.Paulo la liu ezame nasionál tanba nia la prepara.
- Yesterday I came to work late because I was delayed a bit at home.Horiseik ha'u mai servisu tarde tanba demora uitoan iha uma.