When to use it
Use it at a hotel or in the street to ask for a place to eat.
“Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?” · The sentence in English
"Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?" puts "good" before the noun and "nearby" after it.
- Where
- adverbquestion word asking about place
- can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- find
- verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- good
- adjectiveadjective
- restaurant
- nounnoun
- nearby
- adjectiveadjective placed after the noun
“Di mana saya bisa menemukan restoran yang enak di sekitar sini?” · The sentence in Indonesian
"Di mana saya bisa menemukan restoran yang enak di sekitar sini?" links the adjective with "yang" and says nearby as "di sekitar sini".
- Di
- preposition"at, in"
- mana
- pronoun"where" (with di)
- saya
- pronoun"I"
- bisa
- auxiliary verbbisa · form: root · "can"
- menemukan
- verbtemu · form: men- + temu + -kan · "find"
- restoran
- noun"restaurant"
- yang
- pronoun"that, which"; links the adjective
- enak
- adjective"tasty, good" (about food)
- di
- preposition"in"
- sekitar
- noun"surroundings"; "di sekitar sini" = nearby
- sini
- pronoun"here"
What changes from one language to the other · English × Indonesian
English puts adjectives before the noun; Indonesian puts them after, often with "yang". "Enak" is used for tasty food, where English says "good".
Example conversation
— Di mana saya bisa menemukan restoran yang enak di sekitar sini?
— Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?
— Ada yang enak di ujung jalan ini.
— There's a good one at the end of this street.