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Interrogative Words

apakah (Apakah) Budi ada? Is Budi in/around? bukan Budi ada, bukan? Budi is in/around, isn’t he? kan Budi ada, kan? Budi is in/around, isn’t he? ya Budi ada ya? Budi is…

Kapan

Interrogative adverb kapan is used to ask about a particular point in time.  Although kapan translates into English as ‘when’, it is only used in questions. We…

Mana

Interrogative adverbs that uses the interrogative word are: di mana, ke mana, dari mana, yang mana. Mana Mana is used in questions, usually not by itself,…

Berapa

When you ask a question that demands a number as its answer, such as the number of people, weight and measurements; you use just one…

Bagaimana

Interrogative pronouns ‘bagaimana’ means ‘how, in what way; what (is it) like?’ and ‘how are you?’ In day to day conversation, you can just ask “Bagaimana?”…

Apa & Siapa

Apa Interrogative pronouns ‘apa’ is used to ask about objects, concrete or abstract. It means ‘what’ or ‘what kind of’. Siapa Interrogative pronouns ‘siapa’ is used to…

Apakah and -kah

Putting particle –kah on the object, subject or action in question; Using the word apa or ‘apakah’ in the beginning; In casual conversation you can drop the…

Bukan and Ya

An interrogative sentence is one that asks a direct question and always ends in a question mark. In Indonesian language, interrogative sentences can be formed…

With confix ke- -an

The affix ke-an has a passive tone. It can mean “to be caught by” or “to be overcome by”. Many times the doer or the…

With prefix ter-

Indonesians commonly use the prefix ter- as the passive voice, to imply that the action is accidentally done or in which the actor of the action is…

1st & 2nd Person

When the first and the second pronoun happen to be aku(I) and engkau, kau(you), the clitic form ‘ku’ and ‘kau’ is used. ‘Ku’ and ‘kau’…

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