Selamat Datang "Welcome"

Selamat is the word that starts most greetings. It's like "good" in Good morning.

Selamat means safe. So literally it means something like:

"Let there be safety in..."

Datang means come


So "Let there be safety in your coming" = 'Welcome'

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We looked at another word yesterday  tak 'not or no'

So we could say about a guy named Ben:

Ben tak datang ke kelas

'Ben didn't come to class'

Or We could say

Matt datang ke kelas

'Matt came to class'

So we know

datang 'come'

ke 'to, towards'

kelas 'class'

tak 'no, not'

And we can also say

Datang ke Starbucks

'Come to Starbucks'

Or we could say

Nancy tak datang

Nancy didn't come

So at 3PM today

Datang ke Wirtz 218

Come to Wirtz 218

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