Mentor kami mengirim ringkasan latihan lewat email.

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Breakdown of Mentor kami mengirim ringkasan latihan lewat email.

• mengirim: to send
• kami: our
• lewat: via

Questions & Answers about Mentor kami mengirim ringkasan latihan lewat email.

Why is kami placed after mentor, and how does this express our mentor without a separate word for our?

In Indonesian, possessors usually come after the thing they possess:

• mentor kami = our mentor
• rumah saya = my house
• buku mereka = their book(s)

So kami works like our here, but its position is different from English:

• English: our mentor
• Indonesian: mentor kami

Putting kami before mentor (kami mentor) would be ungrammatical in standard Indonesian.

What is the difference between kami and kita, and why is kami used here?

Both mean we / us / our, but:

• kami = we (excluding the listener)
• kita = we (including the listener)

Mentor kami suggests:

• The mentor belongs to us (the speaker’s group),
• but not to the person being talked to (the listener).

If the mentor is shared by both speaker and listener, you would say mentor kita (our mentor including you).

Is mentor an Indonesian word or an English loanword, and are there alternatives?