Tidur yang cukup penting bagi kesehatan.

Enough sleep is important for health.

Breakdown of Tidur yang cukup penting bagi kesehatan.

• adalah: to be
• penting: important
• bagi: for
• cukup: enough

Questions & Answers about Tidur yang cukup penting bagi kesehatan.

What is the function of yang in tidur yang cukup? Why do we need it here?

Yang is a word that links a noun to a description (a kind of “relative pronoun” / marker).

• tidur = sleep
• yang cukup = that is sufficient / which is enough

So tidur yang cukup literally feels like sleep that is sufficient → sufficient sleep.

Without yang, the sentence would change in meaning:

• tidur cukup usually means to sleep enough (verb + adverb: sleep sufficiently).
• tidur yang cukup is a noun phrase: sufficient sleep (something that exists as a thing, like a concept).

In this sentence, we need tidur yang cukup to act as the subject (a thing), not as an action.

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Why is cukup placed after tidur with yang? Why not cukup tidur?

In Indonesian, cukup can modify either:

1. A noun (enough X, sufficient X)
2. A verb (to do X enough)
3. An adjective/adverb (quite X, fairly X)

The position changes the meaning:

• tidur yang cukup

  • tidur (noun) + yang cukup (description)
  • Meaning: sufficient sleep (the amount of sleep is enough).