You’re a man, and should act like a man, not like a woman. in Tetun
Ó ne'e mane, tenke hatudu ó nia hahalok nu'udar mane, la bele hanesan fali feto.
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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
- How come a greedy woman ends up marrying a good man like Melki!Feto karak-teen hola loos mane ida di'ak hanesan Melki ne'e!
- Within a family, it's not the case that the woman is inferior and the man is like a commander who just gives orders.Iha família laran, la'ós feto atu sai inferiór no mane atu sai hanesan komandante hodi manda de'it.
- You're older but act like a little child!Ó ne'e besi tuan tiha ona, hahalok hanesan labarik ki'ikoan!
- This man had evil intentions towards the young woman, to do bad to her.Mane ne'e hanoin aat ba menina ne'e hodi halo aat hasoru nia.
- We are created beings, so don’t act like we are higher than God himself!Ita ema kriatura keta halo an hanesan liu fali Maromak!
- 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.