grammar

grammar
The main article for this section are: Tata Indonesian

Compared with European languages​​, the Indonesian language does not use the word sexed. For example, pronouns like "he" does not specifically indicate whether the person referred to was male or female. The same is found in words like "brother" and "girlfriend" as an example. To specify a gender, an adjective must be added, "brother" as an example.

There is also word sex, such as for example "daughter" and "son". Words like these are usually absorbed from other languages​​. In the above case, both words absorbed from Sanskrit through the Old Javanese language.

To turn a noun into a plural form is used reduplication (repetition of words), but only if the amount is not involved in the context. For example, "a thousand people" used instead of "a thousand people". Recurrence word also has many other uses, not limited to the noun.

Indonesian uses two types of the first person plural, ie "we" and "us". "We" is the exclusive pronoun meaning not including the speaker, while "we" is inclusive pronoun meaning a group of people called, including his interlocutor.

Basic word order is Subject - Predicate - Object (SPO), although other possible wordings. The verb is not in the language berinfleksikan to people or the number of subjects and objects. Indonesian is also not known at the time (tense). Time is expressed by adding the adverb of time (such as "yesterday" or "tomorrow"), or other clues such as "is" or "not yet".

With a fairly simple grammar Indonesian has its own complexity, namely the use of affixes that may be quite confusing for those who first learn Indonesian.