Breakdown of Guru kami mendapat banyak hormat dari murid-murid.
guru
the teacher
banyak
many
dari
from
murid
the student
Questions & Answers about Guru kami mendapat banyak hormat dari murid-murid.
What is the literal, word‑for‑word breakdown of “Guru kami mendapat banyak hormat dari murid-murid”?
Here’s a literal breakdown:
- guru = teacher
- kami = we / us (exclusive “we”: not including the listener)
- guru kami = our teacher
- mendapat = to get, receive, obtain
- banyak = many / much / a lot of
- hormat = respect (as a noun)
- banyak hormat = a lot of respect / much respect
- dari = from
- murid = student / pupil
- murid-murid = students (plural, formed by reduplication)
So, very literally:
“Our teacher gets a lot of respect from (the) students.”
Why is it “guru kami” and not “kami guru”?
In Indonesian, possessors usually come after the noun they possess.
- guru kami = our teacher
- guru (noun) + kami (possessor/pronoun)
- kami guru would sound odd; it would literally read like “we teacher(s)”, which doesn’t follow the normal pattern.
Correct patterns:
- buku saya = my book
- mobil mereka = their car
- guru kami = our teacher
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