"Mereka adalah pasangan suami dan istri."
Translation:They are a couple of husband and wife.
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They are a couple, husband and wife. Or A couple is a husband and a wife.
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In everyday speech does one always include "pasangan," or would it be okay to say "Mereka adalah suami dan istri?"
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The English sentence structure doesn’t sound right. It’s ok to say “a couple of things” but not “a couple of husband and wife”.
The English should be "They are a couple, husband and wife." Saying "they are a couple of husband and wife" implies two husbands and one wife.
English translation is incorrect - 'this couple is husband and wife' would make more sense
As has been noted before, English is incorrect.
More appropriate is: They are a married couple. They are husband and wife.
The translation here shows "They are a couple of husband and wife.", but the correct answer shown on the previous screen was "They are couple of husband and wife."
I hope "They are husband and wife." will be correct, too.
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Doesnt translate well into english this one. How is this said in another way in indonesian?
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There are a lot of alternative translations in these comments but I think the best is:
"They are a husband and wife couple."
This matches the Indonesian sentence well because in the original sentence, "suami dan istri" can act as an adjective modifying "pasangan".
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"They are a couple, husband and wife"??? In other words, they're together but also married. Is that an acceptable gloss?
It could be said this way in English to show they were a couple composed of a husband and wife and not composed of 2 wives or 2 husbands
