Sentence: Getting into the ingredients - Bowl 1: Subject

In Bahasa Indonesia, subject is either noun or pronoun. Rumah (house), mobil (car), laut (sea), negara (country), pemerintah (government), kementerian (ministry), kebaikan (kindness), kebahagiaan (happiness), etc are the examples of noun. Saya (I), kamu (you), dia (s/he), kita (we), etc are the examples of pronoun.

Indonesian pronouns are practically easy to recognize. However, for nouns we need to test whether a word falls into this category. We use negation "bukan"(be not). All nouns can be preceded by "bukan"(be not).

In English we have "Is this a house?" and we say "No, it's not a house" for negation. In Indonesian we can say "bukan rumah" (not a house), bukan pemerintah (not the government), bukan kebahagiaan (not a happiness).

Now, can you list some of the nouns in Indonesian? :)

Writtern By, 

Maftuhah Ismail 

Contributor to Bahasa Budaya Organization

Lingua Internacional