"I am from Jakarta."
Translation:Saya dari Jakarta.
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Translation here should specify "I originate from" as previous example (saya dari Bali) was "I am from". Just to clearly distinguish for learners.
Literally, I originate from would be "Saya berasal dari..."
Maybe there's the same ambiguity in English and in Indonesian, when you say "Saya dari.." and "I'm from..."
(for instance, someone who comes from a city, but wasn't born there, originally).
I just tried it (I learned berasal yesterday), and Saya berasal dari Jakarta does work
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I come from Jakarta. = Saya berasal dari Jakarta. I'm from Jakarta. = Saya dari Jakarta.
Why dari? Why not Saya berhasal (dari?) di Jakarta? ...as we learn ber+verbs here...?
saya dari jakarta = i am from jakarta. saya berasal dari jakarta = i come from jakarta.
How would you make this negative? Saya tidak dari Jakarta? Or Saya bukan dari Jakarta?
In this case, if you are trying to say "I am not originally from Jakarta" I think you would say "Saya bukan berasal dari Jakarta".
If you want to make negative "I am not from Jakarta", you would like to say "Saya bukan dari Jakarta".
I disagree, as "berasal" is a verb, you have to use "tidak":
Saya tidak berasal dari Jakarta.
Bukan is if you want to negate a noun, for instance a nationality.
Saya bukan orang Jepang.
And if you don't use the verb, but want to negate "dari", the preposition:
Saya bukan dari Jakarta.
