You must strive to keep working and live without depending on other people for handouts. in Tetun
Imi tenke haka'as an nafatin hodi servisu no moris la bele tane liman de'it ba ema seluk.
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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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- Brothers and sisters should live far apart so that they keep missing each other.Maun-alin tenke hela dodook malu para saudades malu nafatin.
- When people conduct civic education, they teach the people about political affairs, and also about the rights and responsibilities of the people, to raise their political awareness.Kuandu ema hala'o edukasaun sívika, sira hanorin povu kona ba lia polítiku nian, no mós kona ba direitu no responsabilidade reinu nian, atu foti povu nia konsiénsia polítiku.
- If our leaders have a strong inferiority complex, it is difficult for them to defend the interests of the people, because they don't have the courage to oppose people from other groups.Se ita nia lider iha kompleksu dé inferioridade maka'as, sei susar tebes defende interese povu nian, tanba la brani kontra ema hosi grupu seluk.
- We all live close to each other.Ami hotu hela bes-besik malu.
- Move over closer to me, so that other people can sit too.Tuur duka mai, para ema seluk mós bele tuur.
- Atauro people carve wood into beautiful statues of people.Ema Atauro bahat ai sai estátua ema ne'ebé furak loos.