THE PLURAL FORM Few members support the movement. Tidak banyak anggota-anggota yang mendukung gerakan itu. -- Indonesian, unlike English, doesn’t recognize nominal concord or agreement.  That’s why English recognizes countable nouns, usually by adding –s.
Tidak sedikit penderma-penderma  yang membantu pembangunan gereja itu. Many….  (Donators, donors) Rombongan turis-turis asing dari Amerika Latin sedang mengunjungi Pulau Komodo. (Tourists) Tidak kurang dari dua ratus orang banyaknya prajurit-prajurit yang gugur dalam pertempuran itu. More than…(Soldiers)
Try to translate this: The book is about the two most important questions of life. “Where am I going and who will go with me?” All of us must answer these questions sometime during our lives, and the order in which we answer them is as important as the answers themselves.
PHOTOGRAPHY Pictures communicate some ideas better than words do. Since the days of cavemen, artists have been drawing pictures. But early in 19th century, men tried to invent a mechanical way of picturing an object just as it really was.
INDEFINITE ARTICLE A dog is an intelligent animal. Seekor anjing (adalah) binatang yang cerdas. Anjing (adalah) binatang yang cerdas.
There is a dog in the garden. Ada anjing di kebun. Ada seekor anjing di kebun.
Another example: She ate an apple on the way and she did not realize that it was not hers.
Try to translate this: It was an old table she had bought at a junk sale for two dollars and painted pink. There were some cosmetic jars on it and a silver-backed brush she had gotten as a present on her eighteenth birthday and three small bottles of perfumes and a manicure set all neatly laid out on a clean towel.

The Plural Form

  • 1.
    THE PLURAL FORMFew members support the movement. Tidak banyak anggota-anggota yang mendukung gerakan itu. -- Indonesian, unlike English, doesn’t recognize nominal concord or agreement. That’s why English recognizes countable nouns, usually by adding –s.
  • 2.
    Tidak sedikit penderma-penderma yang membantu pembangunan gereja itu. Many…. (Donators, donors) Rombongan turis-turis asing dari Amerika Latin sedang mengunjungi Pulau Komodo. (Tourists) Tidak kurang dari dua ratus orang banyaknya prajurit-prajurit yang gugur dalam pertempuran itu. More than…(Soldiers)
  • 3.
    Try to translatethis: The book is about the two most important questions of life. “Where am I going and who will go with me?” All of us must answer these questions sometime during our lives, and the order in which we answer them is as important as the answers themselves.
  • 4.
    PHOTOGRAPHY Pictures communicatesome ideas better than words do. Since the days of cavemen, artists have been drawing pictures. But early in 19th century, men tried to invent a mechanical way of picturing an object just as it really was.
  • 5.
    INDEFINITE ARTICLE Adog is an intelligent animal. Seekor anjing (adalah) binatang yang cerdas. Anjing (adalah) binatang yang cerdas.
  • 6.
    There is adog in the garden. Ada anjing di kebun. Ada seekor anjing di kebun.
  • 7.
    Another example: Sheate an apple on the way and she did not realize that it was not hers.
  • 8.
    Try to translatethis: It was an old table she had bought at a junk sale for two dollars and painted pink. There were some cosmetic jars on it and a silver-backed brush she had gotten as a present on her eighteenth birthday and three small bottles of perfumes and a manicure set all neatly laid out on a clean towel.