Saya lewat jembatan setiap pagi.

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Breakdown of Saya lewat jembatan setiap pagi.

• saya: I
• pagi: the morning
• setiap: every

Questions & Answers about Saya lewat jembatan setiap pagi.

What exactly does lewat mean in this sentence? Does it mean to cross or to pass by?

In Saya lewat jembatan setiap pagi, lewat means to go past / to go over / to go via a place.

Natural English translations would be:

• I go over the bridge every morning.
• I go via the bridge every morning.
• I cross the bridge every morning.

So here lewat focuses on the route you take (your path goes through/over that bridge), not just the abstract action of crossing.

Why isn’t there a separate word meaning to go, like pergi, in this sentence?

Indonesian doesn’t always need a separate verb like pergi (to go) when the motion is already clear from another word such as lewat.

You can think of lewat here as already carrying the idea of motion:

• Saya lewat jembatan setiap pagi.
  ≈ I (go) via the bridge every morning.

Adding pergi would sound redundant or unnatural in this sentence:

• Saya pergi lewat jembatan setiap pagi. – possible, but you usually only say this if you really want to emphasize the going plus the route. Everyday speech normally just uses lewat here.

Why is it lewat jembatan and not lewat di jembatan?