32B Family (Familia)

Question 1

family

Answer 1

família

Question 2

mother, mother’s sister

Answer 2

inan

Question 3

mother (as distinct from mother’s sister)

Answer 3

inan rasik

Question 4

mother’s older sister

Answer 4

inan boot

Question 5

mother’s younger sister

Answer 5

inan kiik

Question 6

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

Answer 6

tia

Question 7

father, father’s brother

Answer 7

aman

Question 8

father (as distinct from father’s brother)

Answer 8

aman rasik

Question 9

father’s older brother

Answer 9

aman boot

Question 10

father’s younger brother

Answer 10

aman kiik

Question 11

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

Answer 11

tiu

Question 12

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

Answer 12

maun

Question 13

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

Answer 13

biin

Question 14

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

Answer 14

alin

Question 15

sister (of a man)

Answer 15

feton

Question 16

brother (of a woman)

Answer 16

naan

Question 17

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

Answer 17

primu

Question 18

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

Answer 18

prima

Question 19

brother-in-law (of a woman)

Answer 19

kunhadu

Question 20

brother-in-law (of a man)

Answer 20

rian

Question 21

sister-in-law

Answer 21

kunhada

Question 22

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

Answer 22

oan

Question 23

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

Answer 23

oan rasik

Question 24

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

Answer 24

subrinhu

Question 25

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

Answer 25

subrinha

Question 26

parents

Answer 26

inan-aman

Question 27

mother

Answer 27

main

Question 28

father

Answer 28

pai

Question 29

parent-in-law

Answer 29

banin

Question 30

mother-in-law

Answer 30

banin feto

Question 31

father-in-law

Answer 31

banin mane

Question 32

daughter-in-law

Answer 32

feto foun

Question 33

son-in-law

Answer 33

mane foun

Question 34

oldest child

Answer 34

oan boot

Question 35

youngest child (ikun ‘tail’)

Answer 35

oan ikun

Question 36

spouse

Answer 36

kaben

Question 37

wife

Answer 37

feen

Question 38

husband

Answer 38

laen

Question 39

family, relatives

Answer 39

família

Question 40

why; what’s up

Answer 40

nusaa

Question 41

‘how’

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

Answer 41

halo nusaa

Question 42

relation, extended family member

Answer 42

parenti

Question 43

Sonia meets Rosa in the Xanana Reading Room.

Answer 43

Sonia hasoru Rosa iha Xanana Reading Room.

Question 44

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

Answer 44

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

Question 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.

Answer 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.

Question 46

Do your nephews and nieces speak Tetun or Indonesian?

Answer 46

O nia subrinhu sira koalia Tetun ka lian Indonézia?

Question 47

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

But now she is learning.

Answer 47

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

Maibee agora nia aprende.

Question 48

That’s good.

Answer 48

Nee diak.

Question 49

What is Acata crying for?

Answer 49

Nusaa mak Acata tanis?

Question 50

Why don’t you give us some?!

Answer 50

Nusaa mak imi la foo balu mai ami?!

Question 51

Why have you come so late?!

Answer 51

Nusaa mak o tama tardi hanesan nee?!

Question 52

How do you open this door?

Answer 52

Odamatan nee loke halo nusaa?

Question 53

How can the teachers come to know Portuguese quickly?

Answer 53

Halo nusaa mak profesór sira bele hatene Portugés lailais?

Question 54

What is your judgment?

(lit. ‘How do you judge’)

Answer 54

Ita tesi lia nee halo nusaa?

Question 55

What is “square” in Tetun?

(lit. ‘how is “square” called’)

Answer 55

“Square” ho lian Tetun, bolu halo nusaa?

Question 56

When we were there, there were twenty of us.

We were all Timorese.

Answer 56

Ami iha nebaa, nain rua-nulu;

ami mesak Timor oan deit.

Question 57

Her children are all beautiful.

Answer 57

Nia oan sira mesak oin kapaas deit.

Question 58

This lady sells only expensive clothes.

Answer 58

Senhora nee faan ropa mesak karun deit.