Kami melihat kota dari menara itu.

Both mean we, but they are different kinds of we:

• kami = we, but not including the person being spoken to
• kita = we, including the person being spoken to

So Kami melihat kota dari menara itu means the speaker and others saw the city, but the listener was not part of that group.

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

So melihat can mean:

• see
• saw
• have seen
• sometimes are seeing

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

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

So this sentence could be present or past depending on context, even if the English translation shows a past meaning.

Lihat is the root word meaning see/look.

MeN- is a common verb prefix in Indonesian that forms an active verb. With lihat, it becomes melihat.

So:

• lihat = root/base form
• melihat = to see, see, saw in a normal active clause

In standard Indonesian, melihat is the more natural full verb in a sentence like this.

In casual speech, people may say lihat, but melihat is the standard form.

Here dari means from.

In this sentence, it shows the starting point or viewpoint:

• dari menara itu = from that tower / from the tower

So the idea is that the people were in or on the tower and saw the city from there.

In Indonesian, demonstratives like ini and itu usually come after the noun.

So:

• menara itu = that tower / the tower
• kota itu = that city / the city

This is normal Indonesian word order.

Compare:

• English: that tower
• Indonesian: menara itu

It can mean either, depending on context.

In Indonesian, itu often literally means that, but in many sentences it also works like a definite marker, giving the sense of the.

So menara itu could be understood as:

• that tower if the speaker is contrasting it with another one
• the tower if both speaker and listener already know which tower is meant

Indonesian does not have articles like English a, an, and the.

Whether kota means:

• a city
• the city
• just city in a general sense

depends on context.

So kota by itself can often be translated as the city if the meaning is specific in context.

Yes. The sentence follows a very common Indonesian pattern:

• Kami = subject
• melihat = verb
• kota = object
• dari menara itu = prepositional phrase

So the structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object + Prepositional Phrase

That is a very normal and natural order in Indonesian.

Sometimes, yes, if the context makes it obvious. Indonesian often allows subjects to be dropped in conversation.

For example, in context someone might simply say:

• Melihat kota dari menara itu.

But in a full clear sentence, especially in standard written Indonesian, including kami is normal and usually better.

Kami already clearly means more than one person, so it does not need any extra plural marker.

For nouns like kota, Indonesian often does not mark plural unless necessary. Context usually tells you whether it is singular or plural.

If you really wanted to say cities, Indonesian could use reduplication:

• kota-kota = cities

But here kota is singular: the city or a city, depending on context.

In this sentence, the most natural reading is that dari menara itu tells the viewpoint of seeing: they saw the city from that tower.

Grammatically, dari often means from, so in other contexts it can mark origin or movement away from somewhere. But with melihat here, the usual interpretation is location/viewpoint, not movement.

So the sentence is understood as: they were at the tower and looked at the city from there.

Yes, but the nuance changes a bit.

• melihat = to see
• memandang = to look at, to gaze at, sometimes more deliberate or sustained

So:

• Kami melihat kota dari menara itu = We saw the city from that tower.
• Kami memandang kota dari menara itu = We looked at the city from that tower.

Both are possible, but melihat is the more neutral verb for simply seeing.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

mə-li-hat

A few notes:

• me- is usually a soft muh sound
• li sounds like lee
• hat is close to haht, not English hat exactly

So roughly: muh-LEE-haht

Also, every written vowel is usually pronounced clearly in Indonesian.