Adik saya suka menyanyi lagu pop setiap pagi.

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Breakdown of Adik saya suka menyanyi lagu pop setiap pagi.

• pagi: the morning
• setiap: every
• adik: the younger sibling

Questions & Answers about Adik saya suka menyanyi lagu pop setiap pagi.

What does Adik saya mean, and does it specify my sibling’s gender?

Adik means “younger sibling,” and saya means “my.” Together, Adik saya = “my younger sibling.” Indonesian kinship terms like adik (younger) and kakak (older) don’t encode gender. If you need to be specific you can say adik laki-laki saya (“my younger brother”) or adik perempuan saya (“my younger sister”).

How is the verb menyanyi formed from its root, and what role does the prefix me- play?

The root is nyanyi (“sing”). To turn it into an active verb, Indonesian adds the prefix me-, yielding menyanyi (“to sing”). This is part of a regular system of verbal prefixes (me-, mem-, men-, meng-, meny-) that mark actor-focus verbs.

How do you express “likes singing” in Indonesian? Why is it suka menyanyi and not menyukai menyanyi or suka untuk menyanyi?

To say “likes doing X,” Indonesian uses suka + verb:

• suka menyanyi = “likes singing.”

You don’t need untuk (to) before another verb.
Menyukai is a transitive verb (“to like something”) that takes a noun object, e.g. menyukai lagu itu (“likes that song”), but you wouldn’t normally say menyukai menyanyi.

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