32A Familia (Family)

Question 1

família

Answer 1

family

Question 2

inan

Answer 2

mother, mother’s sister

Question 3

inan rasik

Answer 3

mother (as distinct from mother’s sister)

Question 4

inan boot

Answer 4

mother’s older sister

Question 5

inan kiik

Answer 5

mother’s younger sister

Question 6

tia

Answer 6

‘aunt’: father’s sister; mother’s brother’s wife

Question 7

aman

Answer 7

father, father’s brother

Question 8

aman rasik

Answer 8

father (as distinct from father’s brother)

Question 9

aman boot

Answer 9

father’s older brother

Question 10

aman kiik

Answer 10

father’s younger brother

Question 11

tiu

Answer 11

‘uncle’: mother’s brother; father’s sister’s husband

Question 12

maun

Answer 12

older brother, older son of someone classified as one’s inan or aman

Question 13

biin

Answer 13

older sister, older daughter of someone classified as one’s inan or aman

Question 14

alin

Answer 14

younger brother or sister, younger child of someone classified as one’s inan or aman

Question 15

feton

Answer 15

sister (of a man)

Question 16

naan

Answer 16

brother (of a woman)

Question 17

primu

Answer 17

male cross-cousin (son of one’s mother’s brother or father’s sister)

Question 18

prima

Answer 18

female cross-cousin (daughter of one’s mother’s brother or father’s sister)

Question 19

kunhadu

Answer 19

brother-in-law (of a woman)

Question 20

rian

Answer 20

brother-in-law (of a man)

Question 21

kunhada

Answer 21

sister-in-law

Question 22

oan

Answer 22

child; child of a woman’s sister or father’s brother

Question 23

oan rasik

Answer 23

own child (as distinct from children of one’s brothers or sisters)

Question 24

subrinhu

Answer 24

‘nephew’: son of a woman’s brother or man’s sister

Question 25

subrinha

Answer 25

‘niece’: daughter of a woman’s brother or man’s sister

Question 26

inan-aman

Answer 26

parents

Question 27

main

Answer 27

mother

Question 28

pai

Answer 28

father

Question 29

banin

Answer 29

parent-in-law

Question 30

banin feto

Answer 30

mother-in-law

Question 31

banin mane

Answer 31

father-in-law

Question 32

feto foun

Answer 32

daughter-in-law

Question 33

mane foun

Answer 33

son-in-law

Question 34

oan boot

Answer 34

oldest child

Question 35

oan ikun

Answer 35

youngest child (ikun ‘tail’)

Question 36

kaben

Answer 36

spouse

Question 37

feen

Answer 37

wife

Question 38

laen

Answer 38

husband

Question 39

família

Answer 39

family, relatives

Question 40

nusaa

Answer 40

why; what’s up

Question 41

halo nusaa

Answer 41

‘how’

(occurs at the beginning or the end of the question. It means ‘how’, asking about means or method.)

Question 42

parenti

Answer 42

relation, extended family member

Question 43

Sonia hasoru Rosa iha Xanana Reading Room.

Answer 43

Sonia meets Rosa in the Xanana Reading Room.

Question 44

Rosa, horiseik lokraik hau haree o nia maun Anito iha loja Lita.

Answer 44

Rosa, yesterday afternoon I saw your older brother Anito at Lita shop.

Question 45

Anito hau nia alin, laos hau nia maun.

Hau mak oan feto boot.

Anito hau nia alin ikun.

Nia ferik-oan ema Indonézia.

Sira iha oan nain rua.

Answer 45

Anito is my younger brother, not my older brother.

I’m the oldest daughter.

Anito is my youngest sibling.

His wife is Indonesian.

They have two children.

Question 46

O nia subrinhu sira koalia Tetun ka lian Indonézia?

Answer 46

Do your nephews and nieces speak Tetun or Indonesian?

Question 47

Sira koalia lian Indonézia ho sira nia amaa, tanba hau nia kunhada la hatene Tetun.

Maibee agora nia aprende.

Answer 47

They speak Indonesian with their mother, because my sister-in-law doesn’t know Tetun.

But now she is learning.

Question 48

Nee diak.

Answer 48

That’s good.

Question 49

Nusaa mak Acata tanis?

Answer 49

What is Acata crying for?

Question 50

Nusaa mak imi la foo balu mai ami?!

Answer 50

Why don’t you give us some?!

Question 51

Nusaa mak o tama tardi hanesan nee?!

Answer 51

Why have you come so late?!

Question 52

Odamatan nee loke halo nusaa?

Answer 52

How do you open this door?

Question 53

Halo nusaa mak profesór sira bele hatene Portugés lailais?

Answer 53

How can the teachers come to know Portuguese quickly?

Question 54

Ita tesi lia nee halo nusaa?

Answer 54

What is your judgment?

(lit. ‘How do you judge’)

Question 55

“Square” ho lian Tetun, bolu halo nusaa?

Answer 55

What is “square” in Tetun?

(lit. ‘how is “square” called’)

Question 56

Ami iha nebaa, nain rua-nulu;

ami mesak Timor oan deit.

Answer 56

When we were there, there were twenty of us.

We were all Timorese.

Question 57

Nia oan sira mesak oin kapaas deit.

Answer 57

Her children are all beautiful.

Question 58

Senhora nee faan ropa mesak karun deit.

Answer 58

This lady sells only expensive clothes.