Questions & Answers about Saya menyimpan daftar belanja di buku harian.
What exactly does menyimpan mean here? Is it “to write,” “to save,” or “to keep”?
Menyimpan literally means to keep / to store / to put away (for later use).
In this sentence, it suggests you keep your shopping list in the diary, not necessarily that you’re in the act of writing it.
If you want to emphasize the act of writing, you might say:
- Saya menulis / mencatat daftar belanja di buku harian. – I write / note down the shopping list in the diary.
So:
- menyimpan = focus on keeping/storing it there
- menulis / mencatat = focus on writing/recording it there
Why is it daftar belanja and not something like list belanja or belanjaan?
Daftar belanja literally means shopping list:
- daftar = list
- belanja = shopping
You could say list belanja, and people would understand, but daftar belanja is the more standard, natural Indonesian.
Belanjaan usually refers to the things you shopped for / the purchases rather than the list itself. For example:
- Belanjaan saya banyak. – My purchases are many / I bought a lot.
Does di buku harian really mean “in the diary”? Should it be di dalam buku harian to mean “inside”?