Kamis, 06 Desember 2012

the difference between Bahasa Indonesia and English


I am an elementary school teacher. I live in a growing town near Jakarta. I am teaching English. As a teacher, I am interested in writing. I have a thing that awakens my mind. This is the difference between Bahasa Indonesia and English. 


Indonesia is a big country. It has thousand islands. There are many tribes and local languages. Bahasa Indonesia is the national language. All Indonesian people speak Bahasa Indonesia. I’m very proud of using Bahasa Indonesia but one thing that makes Bahasa Indonesia different from English has awaken my mind. 



What is the thing? The use of passive sentences in Bahasa Indonesia is very often. I don’t know why. I think this pattern of sentence has affected Indonesian’s customs. What is it? The use of passive sentence in Bahasa Indonesia is very often. English often use active sentence in many expressions. Is there any relation between active sentence and active people? There are not any researchers that concern with this matter. In fact, using active sentence makes sense of active feeling and expression. 

Here some examples of the use passive sentence in Bahasa Indonesia and the meaning in English.
Bahasa Indonesia        : Aduh, jariku teriris pisau ( my finger was cut by a knife)
English                         : Ouch, I cut my finger.
This expression is funny. Bahasa Indonesia uses passive voice to express of cutting finger. The meaning is that I don’t make any fault, one who makes fault is the knife. English language has contradictive meaning. It still blames I  as the subject who has made a fault. Bahasa Indonesia accuses the knife who cuts the finger.
Bahasa Indonesia        : Aduh, tanganku terbakar api ( my hand was burnt by fire)
English                         : Ouch, I burnt my hand.
This expression in Bahasa Indonesia means that fire has to be the accused one. In fact , I did the action why I causes my hand burnt.
There are many expressions in Bahasa Indonesia that have the same meaning with those two examples.  

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