Belajar B.Melayu di NIU

We already looked at one of the words for 'please'. Sila duduk refers to 'Please sit'.  Next, we also learned another phrase Sila berdiri 'Please stand up.'

Sila is the word that means please, when the speaker thinks that the action suggested will be of benefit to the person he/she is addressing.

Sila duduk 'Please sit [you will be more comfortable]'

Sila berdiri 'Please stand [you have been sitting too long, you need to change your posture and be refreshed.]'

Now we have studied

Sila makan 'Pleas...

Questions
We can now carry on more complicated discussions because we have learned how to use question words and prepositions, especially:

Siapa 'Who'

Apa 'What'

Ke Mana 'To where?'  <ke 'to, towards'

Di Mana 'At where?'           <di 'at, in, on'

Selamat jalan

A group of people are talking and someone decides to leave, he or she says 'Selamat tinggal" to everyone who is staying behind, and those people say 'Selamat jalan' to the person who is leaving.

Selamat tinggal 'Goodbye' (said to the persons staying behind, not leaving)

Selamat jalan 'Goodbye' (said to the persons leaving, not staying behind)

We already studied Selamat with nouns (times of the day) to make greetings, like Selamat pagi 'Good morning' and Selamat with verbs to make gr...