This week we covered prepositions and using the word apa. In Bahasa Indonesia, there are three key prepositions: ke, di, and dari. Di can be translated as at, an, or in in English. Ke can be translated either as to or toward. Dari is used when saying from a place or a person. When translating the sentence from Indonesian to English, the context is the greatest clue. To learn these prepositions and their functions, Thalia gave me several sentences that used each preposition. For instance, the sentence, “Ratih makan siang di rumah” means, “Ratih has dinner in his house.” To better learn when the prepositions are used, Thalia had me develop sentences without notes using the prepositions correctly. On my own, I found a paragraph that had missing prepostions and selected the correct ones to fill in the blanks.
Finally, we followed up on our discussion last week of the word apa. Apa is an indicator of a question sentence. When used at the beginning of a sentence, apa indicates a yes or no question. When the word is at the end of the sentence, the speaker is asking the listener to fill in the blank. For instance, the sentence, “Kevin makan apa” requires a response of a food item. The sentence translates as, “Kevin eats what?” The receiver of the question could answer with the word nasi for rice.
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