Biaya operasional mengurangi hasil bersih.

Operating costs reduce the net proceeds.

Breakdown of Biaya operasional mengurangi hasil bersih.

• mengurangi: to reduce
• hasil bersih: the net proceeds
• biaya operasional: the operating cost

Questions & Answers about Biaya operasional mengurangi hasil bersih.

What does each word in Biaya operasional mengurangi hasil bersih mean?

Word by word:

• biaya = cost, expense
• operasional = operational, relating to operations
• mengurangi = reduce, decrease, lessen
• hasil = result, yield, return
• bersih = clean, pure, net

So hasil bersih here means something like net result, net return, or in many business contexts net income/profit depending on the wider context.

Why is operasional placed after biaya instead of before it?

In Indonesian, modifiers often come after the noun they describe.

So:

• biaya operasional = operational costs
• literally: costs operational

This is very normal Indonesian word order.

Compare:

• rumah besar = big house
• laporan keuangan = financial report
• hasil bersih = net result

English usually puts adjectives before the noun, but Indonesian often puts them after.

What does mengurangi mean exactly, and how is it formed?