Ukuran tas ini cukup besar untuk membawa banyak buku.

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Breakdown of Ukuran tas ini cukup besar untuk membawa banyak buku.

• adalah: to be
• buku: the book
• untuk: to

Questions & Answers about Ukuran tas ini cukup besar untuk membawa banyak buku.

Why is ini placed after tas instead of before it?

In Indonesian, demonstratives like ini (“this”) and itu (“that”) follow the noun they modify. So tas ini literally means “bag this” = “this bag.” Placing ini before the noun (e.g., ini tas) is not standard for attributive use and would sound awkward.

What does cukup mean in cukup besar, and why is it placed before besar?

Here cukup means “enough” or “sufficient.” When you put cukup before an adjective, it expresses that something meets a necessary degree:

• cukup besar = “big enough.”
  It can also soften the adjective to mean “quite/rather,” but the following purpose clause (untuk…) makes the “big enough to…” sense clear.

How do I know if cukup besar means “quite big” or “big enough”?

Context and sentence structure tell you:

• With a following untuk
  • verb phrase, cukup besar almost always means “big enough to …”
• Without a purpose clause, cukup besar can mean “fairly/quite big.”
  In our sentence, cukup besar untuk membawa… unambiguously means “big enough to carry…”

Why is untuk used before membawa? Can I omit it?