Kebersihan dapur penting agar makanan tetap aman.

to be

Breakdown of Kebersihan dapur penting agar makanan tetap aman.

• penting: important
• tetap: still
• makanan: the food

Questions & Answers about Kebersihan dapur penting agar makanan tetap aman.

What does kebersihan mean, and how is it formed?

Kebersihan means cleanliness. It’s formed from the adjective bersih (clean) with the nominalizing affix ke- … -an, which often makes abstract nouns for “the state/quality of X,” e.g., kebaikan (goodness) from baik, keindahan (beauty) from indah.

Why is there no adalah in Kebersihan dapur penting?

Indonesian usually omits a copula (“to be”) when the predicate is an adjective. With noun predicates, adalah is common, but with adjectives it’s typically left out. Kebersihan dapur adalah penting sounds stiff or unnatural in most contexts. A natural way to add emphasis is Kebersihan dapur itu penting.

What exactly does agar do here? How does it compare with supaya, biar, and untuk?

• Agar introduces a purpose clause: “so that/in order that.”
• Supaya is a near-synonym of agar, slightly less formal and very common.
• Biar is colloquial/informal for the same idea.
• Untuk means “to/for” and is used with a noun or verb phrase, not a finite clause. You’d say: … penting untuk menjaga makanan tetap aman (important to keep the food safe), not … penting untuk makanan tetap aman.