After you learn about Indonesian Suffixes, it is time to move to another Indonesian affix, which is the combination of prefix and suffix. There are two type of the combination. First, konfiks [kon’fix]. It is a term that refers to inseparable combined Indonesian prefixes and suffixes that attached to a single grammatically-correct word at the […]
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Hello! Selamat datang! One of the key in learning second language is understand its grammar. Sometimes, learning certain language grammar is very difficult because it has huge difference with our mother-tongue. Beside that, we also deal with socio-cultural aspect that implied in the language. In fact, that condition also happened between Bahasa Indonesia and English. […]
In Forming Indonesian Words using Indonesian affixes, understand about affixes is a must. After exploring about Indonesian Prefixes, it is the time to move to another affix, which is suffix. At this opportunity, we will learn about 9 Indonesian suffixes. Suffix is a dependent morpheme or a set of letter attached at the end of a word. […]
Hello. Selamat datang! Learning second or third languages means understand the specific systems of those languages and get familiar with it. It demands knowledge as well as practice at the same time. Therefore, tenses in English or grammatical gender in certain European language are the really difficult for non-native speaker. In Bahasa Indonesia, probably the […]
Plural nouns refers to more than one or groups of nouns. In English, there are strict rules in making plural nouns including noun changes. In Indonesia, making plural nouns is very easy. Instead of changing the nouns, there will be repetition or reduplication of the word to make plural. As the title suggest, we are […]
After learning Indonesian grammar exercise, the next course to learn is question word order. Constructing question in Indonesia is not as difficult as in English. In general, Bahasa Indonesian employs S-V-O word order with no verb changes (due to time, gender, or number of the subject). Indonesian question word can be divided into two kinds […]
Bahasa Indonesia is considered as a language with no complex grammatical rules. There is no verbs changing, words gender differences, and the like. It should be pretty easy to learn Indonesian grammar. Learning Indonesian grammar is important to construct Indonesian sentence. Also learn more about Indonesian sentence structure. Indonesian Sentence Construction Indonesian sentence construction can […]
Good day! Have you read about Indonesian prefixes table and Indonesian infixes? They are an important part of Indonesian grammar structure. Today, we are focusing on suffixes, particularly the suffix “-kan”. Sometimes a suffix has more than one usage in Indonesian, just like the suffix “-kan”, but basically the formula is the same, you just add […]
Welcome back to MasteringBahasa! Selamat Datang Kembali di MasteringBahasa! As you learn more Indonesian, you will find out that most words in Indonesian sentences don’t exist just as their root words, instead they have a set of letters attached in the beginning (prefix) or ending (suffix) of those words to make them sound more ‘complete’ and […]
Hi! How’s your progress in learning Bahasa? What do you think of Indonesian grammar? Indonesian grammar is quite simple, make sure you learn Indonesian grammar structures for beginners and check out basic student’s guide for Indonesian grammar! In Indonesian language, many words are formed from a combination of root words and affixes. Affixes are a set […]