"Dia membeli sepatu cokelat."

Translation: He buys brown shoes.

[antspants01]

Just one brown shoe? I mean, I suppose it can be done... haha

[Yves23A]

Well I thought the same thing as you did... lol

I think that this sentence can be translated into English with a plural : he buys brown shoes.

[cafe_disco]

Agreed. It probably makes more sense that way. (People usually don't buy just one single shoe)

[sumsel1]

seems to be fixed. It showed 'brown shoes' to me now.

[troth93]

Plural "brown shoes" should be correct as well, I think

[ZoeVincent5]

I like chocolate shoes :)

[adrianwhatever]

I learned "coklat" for brown. Was my native Indoneisan speaking University lecturer wrong?

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Hai teman! Both are correct, and used (cokelat / coklat) nowadays in Indonesia. Just "cokelat" is the officially correct in the official dictionary (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia), so I insist "cokelat" is not more correct, just the most official.

Selamat belajar! :)

[moacan]

well in the dictionary its spell cokelat but the pronunciation is coklat.. so nowadays we tend to spell it coklat.. same goes to isteri -> istri : wife, putera -> putra : son, puteri -> putri : daughter, karena -> karna : because, etc... I think the gov of education should change the dictionary spelling

[Emil248727]

He buys chocolate shoes

[DianaLR]

We never buy just one shoe. Please change the translation to “He buys brown shoes.”

[brucebirch]

The default translation should be "brown shoes".

[Jellei]

OK, I understand it just means brown, but can't it hypothetically mean "chocolate shoes"? Both as a colour ('exactly the colour of chocolate') or even shoes actually made from chocolate?

[Rick392366]

sepatu terbuat dari cokelat.

Nice pictures in these articles:

https://food.detik.com/info-kuliner/d-3355887/pencinta-cokelat-sekarang-ada-sepatu-kulit-dari-cokelat

https://www.money.id/video/food/sepatu-cantik-terbuat-dari-cokelat-1602122.html

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[InneSinggih]

"Dia" is genderless, he/she should be accepted.

[MoWaiYung]

why i cant write the? he buys the brown shoes

[JulieFrank12]

One does not buy one shoe. I think it should be: "He buys brown shoes."

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Hai teman! I understand what you mean. I think semantically it is more correct to use the English plural noun. But also, I think this course is intended to show how the Indonesian noun can be translated as singular and plural as well, and grammatically correct as well. I hope you can also report your sentence to be included to alternative sentences.

Selamat belajar! :)

[win.metacutie]

so that means i can use 'jeruk' as a color, too?

[AVAX3M]

That would be my thought too, but sadly not.