Indonesian Grammar

The Indonesian grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Indonesian and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: dan	Under: bawah
Before: sebelum	After: setelah
Inside: dalam	Outside: di luar
With: dengan	But: tapi
For: untuk	From: dari
To: untuk	In: di

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: apa?	Who?: siapa?
How?: bagaimana?	Why?: mengapa?
Where?: dimana?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: tak pernah	Rarely: jarang
Sometimes: kadang-kadang	Usually: biasanya
Always: selalu	Very: sangat

Most commonly used pronouns in Indonesian:

I: aku	You: kau, kamu
He: dia	She: dia
We: kita	They: mereka

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: saya	Your: anda
His: dia	Her: dia
Our: kami	Their: mereka

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: saya berbicara bahasa inggris

You speak French: anda berbicara bahasa perancis

He speaks German: ia berbicara bahasa jerman

She speaks Italian: ia berbicara bahasa italia

I visited France: saya mengunjungi prancis

I will drink milk: saya akan minum susu

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: saya memahami anda

I don't understand you: saya tidak mengerti anda

I don't speak French: saya tidak bisa bahasa prancis

This is my house: ini rumah saya

That restaurant is far: restoran itu jauh

No problem: tidak ada masalah

The above Indonesian grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Indonesian vocabulary to obtain some popular Indonesian phrases.