When to use it
Use it in the street or at a hotel when you need to catch a train.
The sentence in English — “Where is the nearest train station?”
"Where is the nearest train station?" uses the superlative "nearest" (near + -est).
- Where
- adverbquestion word asking about place
- is
- verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; here it says where something is
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- nearest
- adjectivesuperlative of "near"
- train
- nounnoun; it says what kind of station
- station
- nounnoun
The sentence in Indonesian — “Di mana stasiun kereta terdekat?”
"Di mana stasiun kereta terdekat?" makes the superlative with the prefix ter-: "terdekat" (nearest). No verb is needed.
- Di
- preposition"at, in"
- mana
- pronoun"where" (with di)
- stasiun
- noun"station"
- kereta
- noun"train"
- terdekat
- adjectiveter- + dekat: "nearest"
English × Indonesian — What changes from one language to the other
English adds -est at the end; Indonesian adds ter- at the start. English puts "train" before "station"; Indonesian puts "kereta" after "stasiun".
Example conversation
— Permisi, di mana stasiun kereta terdekat?
— Excuse me, where is the nearest train station?
— Lurus saja, lalu belok kiri di lampu merah.
— Go straight on and turn left at the lights.