Menteri mengunjungi sekolah.

Indonesian usually uses Subject + Verb + Object, just like basic English word order.

• Menteri = the minister / a minister
• mengunjungi = visits / visited / is visiting
• sekolah = school

So the structure is:

• Menteri → subject
• mengunjungi → verb
• sekolah → object

That is why Menteri mengunjungi sekolah is the normal order.

Indonesian usually does not use articles like the, a, or an.

So:

• menteri can mean a minister or the minister
• sekolah can mean a school, the school, or just school

The exact meaning depends on context. In a real conversation, listeners usually understand from the situation which minister or which school is meant.

Mengunjungi means to visit.

It comes from the base word kunjung, which relates to visiting, and it takes the prefix meN- and the suffix -i, giving mengunjungi.

In this sentence, it means the minister is visiting the school.

Because kunjung by itself is not normally used as the main verb in this kind of sentence.

Indonesian often builds verbs by adding affixes to a root. Here:

• root: kunjung
• verb form: mengunjungi

This makes it a normal active verb meaning to visit something/someone.

So Menteri mengunjungi sekolah is natural, while Menteri kunjung sekolah is not standard Indonesian.

In this verb, -i helps form a transitive verb that takes an object.

So:

• mengunjungi sekolah = visit a school / the school

Many Indonesian verbs with -i are used when the action is directed toward a place or object. You do not need to translate -i as a separate English word, but it is part of what makes mengunjungi mean visit something.

No. Indonesian verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So mengunjungi can mean:

• visits
• is visiting
• visited
• has visited

The time is understood from context or from time words such as:

• kemarin = yesterday
• sekarang = now
• besok = tomorrow

For example:

• Kemarin menteri mengunjungi sekolah. = Yesterday the minister visited the school.

No. Indonesian nouns usually do not have special singular markers.

So menteri by itself is normally understood as minister or ministers, depending on context. In this sentence, it will usually be understood as singular because nothing suggests plural.

If you want to make plurality clearer, context or extra words can help.

It could in theory, because Indonesian nouns often do not change form for singular/plural. However, without extra context, many learners would read menteri here as singular: the minister / a minister.

If you wanted to clearly show plural, you might use:

• para menteri = the ministers
• menteri-menteri = ministers

So:

• Para menteri mengunjungi sekolah. = The ministers visited the school.

It could be either. Sekolah can mean:

• a school
• the school
• school in a general sense

In this sentence, many people would understand it as a/the school that is relevant in context.

If you want to be more specific, Indonesian can add words like:

• sekolah itu = that school / the school
• sebuah sekolah = a school

Yes. That is correct.

Adding sebuah makes it clearer that you mean a school rather than the school or school more generally.

Compare:

• Menteri mengunjungi sekolah. = The minister visited a school / the school.
• Menteri mengunjungi sebuah sekolah. = The minister visited a school.

Usually menteri is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of a sentence or part of an official title/name.

So:

• Menteri mengunjungi sekolah. → capitalized because it starts the sentence
• Seorang menteri mengunjungi sekolah. → menteri stays lowercase
• Menteri Pendidikan → capitalized because it is part of a title

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• me-ngun-jung-i

Roughly:

• me as in muh but shorter
• ngun with the ng sound as in sing
• jung like joong with a short final ng
• i like ee

The ng sound is very common in Indonesian, so learners often need a little practice with it.

Sometimes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• mengunjungi sekolah = visit the school
• datang ke sekolah = come to the school / go to the school

Mengunjungi focuses on the act of visiting.
Datang ke focuses more on arriving or coming to a place.

So if you specifically mean visit, mengunjungi is the better choice.

Because sekolah is the direct object of the verb mengunjungi.

In English, visit also takes a direct object:

• visit the school
• not visit to the school

So Indonesian works similarly here:

• mengunjungi sekolah
• not mengunjungi ke sekolah

If you use a verb like pergi or datang, then you would need a preposition such as ke:

• Menteri pergi ke sekolah. = The minister went to the school.

Yes, it is natural and standard Indonesian. It sounds neutral and works well in writing, news, or everyday formal speech.

It is especially the kind of sentence you might see in a news report, because menteri and mengunjungi are both common in formal contexts.