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The use of “yang” 3 Posted by asimonoff on Apr 22, 2018
“Yang” is used in the simple meaning of who / which / that or when used to say ‘the person who (m)…’ or ‘the thing that…’. 1. “Yang” which is used in this way is particularly favored after ada …: Examples: Ada lima pulau yang luas sekali. There are five islands that are very vast…
The use of “yang” 2 Posted by asimonoff on Apr 19, 2018
“Yang” is used in the simple meaning of who / which / that or when used to say ‘the person who (m)…’ or ‘the thing that…’. “Yang” is preceded by a noun (the one underlined). Examples: Orang yang saya lihat di jalan kemarin adalah Pak Joko. The person whom I saw on the street yesterday…
Bahwa Clauses Posted by asimonoff on Mar 30, 2018
Any statement can follow bahwa “that”. A bahwa clause is an object of a transitive verb or as complement of an intransitive verb. Examples: Anda menjawab, “John tidak percaya kabar itu.” You replied,” John doesn’t believe that news.” Anda menjawab bahwa John tidak percaya kabar itu. You replied that John didn’t believe that news. Bahwa…
Imperatives in Indonesian Posted by asimonoff on Mar 29, 2018
Imperatives are the language forms that we use to tell people to do things. This may mean giving commands, making requests, offering, inviting, urging, or advising. We also use imperatives to tell people not to do something (prohibiting). These are called negative imperatives. If the imperative verb is intransitive it has the same form as…
The use of “yang” 1 Posted by asimonoff on Mar 27, 2018
There are several words in Indonesian that don’t have any equivalent in English and “yang” is one of those. “Yang” can be translated as ‘the’, ‘the one’, ‘which’, ‘who’, and ‘that’ . For example: Yang + adjective When the qualifier of a noun is an adjective such as ‘white’ as ‘white book’ as ‘clever’ as in…
Prefix “se-” Posted by asimonoff on Feb 28, 2018
1. One function of se- with nouns is to form adjectives that mean “sharing (base), having the same (base)”, where the base is a noun. Examples: Dia teman sekelas saya. He is a classmate of mine. Maya rekan sekamarnya. Maya is his/her roommate. Alternatively, the se- (base) form may occur as a predicate and be…
Prefix -nya Posted by asimonoff on Feb 25, 2018
“-nya” Suffix -nya is a unique prefix in Indonesia grammar as the functions it served, such as a third person pronoun and possessive pronoun, -nya meaning the shows that the person or thing has either been mentioned before, -nya as a nominalizer, etc. 1. is to show possession (his, her, its, their) For…