When to use it
Use it when driving in a city and you want covered parking that does not cost much.
The sentence in English: “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”
"I'm looking for cheap underground parking" puts two adjectives before "parking".
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in Indonesian: “Saya sedang mencari tempat parkir bawah tanah yang murah.”
"Saya sedang mencari tempat parkir bawah tanah yang murah" puts all the description after the noun, with "yang" before "murah".
- Saya
- pronoun"I"
- sedang
- adverbmarks an action happening now
- mencari
- verbcari · form: men- + cari · "look for"
- tempat
- noun"place"
- parkir
- noun"parking"
- bawah
- noun"below"
- tanah
- noun"ground"; "bawah tanah" = underground
- yang
- pronoun"that"
- murah
- adjective"cheap"
What changes from one language to the other: English × Indonesian
English stacks adjectives before the noun; Indonesian puts them after. "Underground" is "bawah tanah" (below the ground).
Example conversation
— Saya sedang mencari tempat parkir bawah tanah yang murah.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Ada satu di bawah alun-alun.
— There's one under the main square.