7 - phrases

Question 1

Ó lori bee, ha’u halo kafé
/ Ó lori bee karik, ha’u halo kafe
/ Se ó lori bee (karik), hau halo cafe.

Answer 1

If you bring water I will make coffee.

Question 2

Mane ida-ne’e moras karik, nia sei hemu ai-moruk.
/ Se mane ida-ne’e moras (karik), nia sei hemu ai-moruk.

Answer 2

If this man is sick, he should take medicine.

Question 3

Ó hakarak bá ho ami karik?

Answer 3

Would you like to go with us?

Question 4

Ita-nia kaben haluha karik buat ruma?

Answer 4

Has your wife/husband forgotten something?

Question 5

Sira la bele bá?

Answer 5

Can’t they go?

Question 6

Ita keta hatene sira karik?

Answer 6

Don’t you know them?

Question 7

Mana la’os bá eskola?

Answer 7

Aren’t you (big sister) going to go to school?

Question 8

Ha’u kala la haree ó iha-ne’eba?

Answer 8

Didn’t I see you there?

Question 9

Nia hatete (katak) nia lakohi mai ho ita.

Answer 9

He says he doesn’t want to come with us.

Question 10

Ha’u hanoin (katak) Pedru hetan ona nia karteira.

Answer 10

I think that Pedru has found his wallet.

Question 11

Ha’u hein atu sira bele ajuda ita.

Answer 11

I hope (that) they can help us.

Question 12

Ne’e katak sá?

Answer 12

What does that mean?

Question 13

Manél katak ká?

Answer 13

What does Manuel say/mean?

Question 14

Ó lalika fó osan ba mane-oan ne’eba. Nia iha nato’on ona.

Answer 14

You don’t need to give that boy money. He has enough already.

Question 15

Imi hanoin (katak) sira sei empresta sira-nia karreta mai ami?

Answer 15

Do you (plural) know if they will lend their car to us.

Question 16

Ha’u nia belun Mária iha oan-feto na’in-tolu.

Answer 16

My friend Mária has three daughters.

Question 17

Ita lalika selu konta ne’e tanba ami selu ona.

Answer 17

You don’t need to pay the bill because we paid already.

Question 18

To’os-na’in na’in haat ne’e tolun feto sira hodi ramata serbisu.

Answer 18

Those four farmers helped the women with finishing the work.

Question 19

Labarik ki’ik ne’eba atu monu iha bee. Ó tenke kaer nia!

Answer 19

That little child there is going to fall in the water: you have to catch him/her.

Question 20

Ha’u tau ona kaneta lima iha ha’u-nia bornál.

Answer 20

I have put five pens in my pocket.

Question 21

Ema iha ulun ida, matan rua, inus ida, ibun ida, liman rua ho ain rua.

Answer 21

People have a head, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two hands, and two legs.

Question 22

Liman hotu-hotu iha liman-fuan lima. Ain ida iha ain-fuan hira?

Answer 22

All hands have five fingers. A foot has how many toes?

Question 23

Katuas ne’e la iha ona nehan barak iha nia ibun, maibé ferik ida-ne’e iha nehan kmanek loos.

Answer 23

This old man doesn’t have many teeth in his mouth, but this old woman has very fine teeth.

Question 24

Ha’u-nia naan ladún riku, maibé nia haksolok.

Answer 24

My cousin is not very wealthy, but he is happy.

Question 25

Ó keta kolia ba nia alin-feto karik?

Answer 25

Didn’t you speak to his younger sister?

Question 26

Ita hetan malae-mutin iha Portugál, malae metan iha Mosambike ho Angola, i Malae-Xina iha Makau.

Answer 26

We find white people (foreigners) in Portugal, black people in Mozambique and Angola, and Chinese people in Macau.

Question 27

Ema australiana sira gosta bá rai-Timór tanba la dook husi sira-nia rain.

Answer 27

Australians like to go to Timor because it isn’t far from their country.

Question 28

Liurai katuas atu mate, ne’e-duni liurai-feto ferik laran-todan loos.

Answer 28

The old King will die, and so the old Queen is very heavy hearted.