Kebanyakan orang datang awal.

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Breakdown of Kebanyakan orang datang awal.

• orang: the person
• datang: to come
• kebanyakan: most (of a group)

Questions & Answers about Kebanyakan orang datang awal.

What does kebanyakan mean here?

Kebanyakan means most, the majority, or most of.

It comes from banyak, which means many or much. With the ke-...-an pattern, it becomes a noun-like form meaning the majority.

So:

• banyak orang = many people
• kebanyakan orang = most people

So kebanyakan orang is stronger than just banyak orang.

Why is it kebanyakan orang, not kebanyakan orang-orang?

Because in Malay, you usually do not need to mark the noun as plural when the meaning is already clear from a word like kebanyakan.

So:

• kebanyakan orang = most people

Adding orang-orang would sound unnecessary here.

In Malay, plural meaning is often shown by context, numbers, or quantity words rather than by changing the noun itself.

Does orang mean person or people?