Questions & Answers about Ada sewaan kasut di pusat boling itu.
What does ada mean in this sentence?
Here, ada means there is / there are or is available.
So ada sewaan kasut means that a shoe-rental service, or rental shoes, exist / are available at that place.
This is a very common Malay pattern for talking about existence or availability:
- Ada tandas di sini. = There is a toilet here.
- Ada makanan. = There is food.
So in this sentence, ada is not really have in the English sense. It is introducing something that is present.
Why is it sewaan and not just sewa?
The root word is sewa, which relates to rent / hire.
Sewaan is a noun formed from sewa, and it often refers to:
- something that is rented,
- a rental service,
- or rental arrangements.
So sewaan kasut is a natural way to talk about shoe rental or rental shoes.
A learner may notice that sewa by itself can also appear in other contexts, but in this sentence sewaan sounds more like a noun phrase referring to the rental offering itself.
Why is kasut not plural? Shouldn’t it be shoes?