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| Jimmymac Senior Member United Kingdom strange-lands.com/le Joined 5941 days ago 276 posts - 362 votes  Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 5 16 April 2011 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a quick question about how to say 'we don't often drink water' in Indonesian. I can't figure out where the most appropriate place for 'often' is. Is it:
A) Kami tidak sering minum air. B) Kami sering tidak minum air. C) Kami tidak minum sering air. Could anyone spare a moment to offer some advice please? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6017 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 5 16 April 2011 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just started Indonesian so I may not be the BEST resource but it seems that:
A)- means : We do not often drink water. B) - means : We do not often drink water. C) - means : We do not drink water frequently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jimmymac Senior Member United Kingdom strange-lands.com/le Joined 5941 days ago 276 posts - 362 votes Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 5 24 April 2011 at 11:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for your reply.
I wonder if any native speakers could offer any input? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kosongbebas Diglot Newbie Indonesia Joined 5306 days ago 8 posts - 70 votes Speaks: Indonesian*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 5 25 April 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
In my perception, both A and B means the same thing. But there is some difference, in A) you are talking about what we don't often do ("drink water") in the B) the topic is about what we often do ("not drink water"). (I think you can directly translate it to English, both have same meaning but each has different topic). It means the same thing, but for "We don't often drink water", A is the direct (and also perfect) translation. For C it means We don't drink "sering water". You can't use "sering" before object. The same as you can't say "We don't drink often water", as in English, I think there is no "often burger" or "often milk". Both are strange right? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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