Questions & Answers about Siang terasa panas di kota.
What exactly does siang mean here? Does it mean “afternoon,” “noon,” or just “daytime”?
Siang is a time-of-day word that roughly covers late morning to mid‑afternoon.
Typical rough divisions in Indonesian:
- pagi = morning (around 4–10 a.m.)
- siang = late morning / midday / early afternoon (around 10 a.m.–3 p.m.)
- sore = late afternoon / early evening (around 3–6 p.m.)
- malam = night (after dark)
In this sentence, siang is used like a time period:
> Siang terasa panas di kota.
> Midday / the daytime feels hot in the city.
In natural English you might translate it as “The daytime feels hot in the city” or “It feels hot in the city during the day (around midday).”
Why is there no subject pronoun like “it”? Who or what is the subject in this sentence?
The subject is siang (the midday / daytime).
Indonesian often does not need a pronoun like “it” when talking about weather or general conditions. Instead, a noun like siang, cuaca (weather), udara (air), or hari (day) can serve as the subject.
So structurally:
- Siang = subject
- terasa = verb (“feels / is felt”)
- panas = complement (adjective “hot”)
- di kota = adverbial phrase (“in the city”)
Indonesian does not need something like “It” in “It is hot”. The noun itself (here, ) works as the subject.