You’d better work, lest the boss suddenly return and find you just hanging around. in Tetun
Di'ak liu servisu! Keta halo be xefe fila derrepente, haree ita halimar hela de'it!
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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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Related phrases
- He just plays around all the time (he doesn't work).Nia loron-kalan halimar de'it.
- You're just sitting there like a boss, not working, just waiting to be fed!Ó tuur hanesan bos de'it, la hatene halo servisu, hein han de'it!
- We just saw a bee flying around in our house.Ohin ami haree bani semo iha ami nia uma leten.
- When the children return from school, they like to just play.Labarik sira fila hosi eskola, gosta halimar de'it.
- Teacher Mario resigned from his work as he didn’t like his boss.Mestre Mario dada an hosi nia servisu tanba la gosta nia xefe.
- If we work overseas, we can earn a lot of money, but the work is hard.Ita servisu iha rai li'ur, bele manán osan boot maibé servisu todan.