When to use it
Use it at the airport when you cannot find your boarding gate.
“Can you help me find my gate?” · The sentence in English
"Can you help me find my gate?" uses "help" + "me" + "find" without "to".
- Can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission; it opens the question
- you
- pronounpersonal pronoun
- help
- verbhelp · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- me
- pronounobject pronoun
- find
- verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"
- my
- determinerpossessive determiner
- gate
- nounnoun; the boarding gate at an airport
“Bisakah Anda membantu saya menemukan gerbang keberangkatan saya?” · The sentence in Indonesian
"Bisakah Anda membantu saya menemukan gerbang keberangkatan saya?" uses "saya" twice: as "me" and, after the noun, as "my".
- Bisakah
- auxiliary verbbisa · form: bisa + -kah · "can" as a polite question
- Anda
- pronounpolite "you"
- membantu
- verbbantu · form: mem- + bantu · "help"
- saya
- pronoun"me"
- menemukan
- verbtemu · form: men- + temu + -kan · "find"
- gerbang
- noun"gate"
- keberangkatan
- nounke- + berangkat + -an: "departure"
- saya
- pronoun"my": the same word after a noun
What changes from one language to the other · English × Indonesian
English has different words for I, me and my; Indonesian uses "saya" for all three, and its place shows the meaning. English says just "gate"; Indonesian says "departure gate".
Example conversation
— Bisakah Anda membantu saya menemukan gerbang keberangkatan saya?
— Can you help me find my gate?
— Tentu, boleh saya lihat boarding pass Anda?
— Of course, may I see your boarding pass?