When to use it
Use it at a hotel or a tourist office.
The sentence in English (“Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?”)
"Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?" uses "the city" with an article.
- 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
- rent
- verbrent · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- bicycle
- nounnoun; often shortened to "bike"
- in
- prepositionpreposition
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- city
- nounnoun
The sentence in Indonesian (“Di mana saya bisa menyewa sepeda di kota ini?”)
"Di mana saya bisa menyewa sepeda di kota ini?" says "kota ini" (this city) after the noun.
- Di
- preposition"at, in"
- mana
- pronoun"where" (with di)
- saya
- pronoun"I"
- bisa
- auxiliary verbbisa · form: root · "can"
- menyewa
- verbsewa · form: meny- + sewa · "rent"
- sepeda
- noun"bicycle"
- di
- preposition"in"
- kota
- noun"city"
- ini
- determiner"this"; "kota ini" = this city
What changes from one language to the other (English × Indonesian)
English uses "the" before "city"; Indonesian uses "ini" (this) after it. "Menyewa" comes from "sewa" (rent).
Example conversation
— Di mana saya bisa menyewa sepeda di kota ini?
— Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?
— Ada penyewaan sepeda dekat taman.
— There's a bike rental near the park.