Repetitions – to form an adverbial adjective

Besides adding a “dengan” before them, with adjectives there is another way to make an adverb out of them – repetitions. I walk slowly Saya berjalan pelan-pelan.

However, use this form carefully because unlike using the “dengan” method, which will immediately make no sense when used with certain adjectives like colours or measurements, this form will be accepted for ANY adjectives grammatically but will have a different semantics. Observe : Dengan biru makes no sense Biru-biru show the adjective’s dominance.

Dengan lebar makes no sense Lebar-lebar can either emphasize the adjective or show the adjective’s dominance.

Written by,

Paulius Setiawan

Contributor to Bahasa Budaya Organization

Lingua Internacional

Jakarta Indonesia

Cooking A Sentence: If A Sentence Is A Cake

When we want to make a cake, we need to prepare the ingredients. To recognize what made of English and Indonesia cake, take a look at these examples.

English cake: She grabs breakfast quickly.Indonesian cake: Dia mengambil sarapan dengan cepat.

Ingredients recognized:Bowl 1: "she" which corresponds to "dia" > we name the bowl Subject/ SBowl 2: "grabs" which corresponds to "mengambil" > we name the bowl Predicate/ PBowl 3: "breakfast" which corresponds to "sarapan" > we name the bowl Object/ OBowl 4: "quickly" which corresponds to "dengan cepat" > we name the bowl Compliment/ C

Each bowl holds a role in making the cake. Each bowl only contains one ingredient. We cansubstitute the ingredient in each bowl, but only with it's comparable substitution.In order to make the cake, we use mixer to put the ingredients together, but we must put them one by one in a sequence. We can't mix flavor before egg and butter. Bowl S should only be poured before bowl P. Bowl O should only be poured after bowl P. Bowl C can be poured at anytime.

Noticing the type of ingredients in each bowl and how to mix them to make a cake, now you can try to make your own cake. Happy sentence cooking. ;)

By Maftuhah IsmailContributor to Bahasa Budaya Organizationwww.bahasabudaya.org

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