"Labu kita dibawa ke bank."
Translation:Our pumpkin is taken to a bank.
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Right, but there is such a thing as a sentence whose meaning is weird, which is terribly useful (you cannot rely on context to translate it), and also a sentence whose grammar or style is weird, which is not useful. This sentence is, unfortunately, both.
You don't keep all your cash money safe at home inside a pumpkin piggy bank, James?
Strange man!
I wouldn't say that the grammar is weird, just straight out incorrect. Once they fix it to be "The Bank" they'll have a type-1 weird sentence.
EDIT: Looks like this has been fixed now. "a bank" is acceptable
If it said "banknya," it'd be "the bank" but without that, the indefinite article is implied, therefore "a bank".
I disagree on the basis that English has the quirk of using "the" to refer to banks, shops, newsagents etc when the speaker doesn't really care which specific location they are going to.
So you could argue (though I'm not entirely sure Indonesian works that way, I think "-nya" can be implicit) that "Going to a bank" is a more direct translation, "going to the bank" is a more natural one.
Well, some people like to call others "pumpkin." Probably weird af in Indonesia but if orang Amerika or orang expats wanna do that, it's their choice.
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Maybe the person who wrote this, is a pumpkin farmer delivering food to a bank's in-house cafeteria?
“I need a loan to expand my pumpkin farming. This is what they look like, you want a slice?”
I can't see this sentence being used a lot in Indonesia, so why waste space on this nonsense type of sentence
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It appears Indonesian uses the passive construction more than in English.
It seems to me that the passive present construction in English here should be "Our pumpkin is being taken to a bank", which I could imagine someone saying if they were really concerned about their pumpkin being on the wrong vehicle heading the wrong way and needed it for a Halloween party. ;-)
Since it's not really clear why their pumpkin is being taken to a bank, does it really matter which bank they take it to? Maybe any bank will do! haha
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I think it previously said "our pumpkin is taken to bank". You're right though, "a bank" is correct as well.
As joeldipops said above, it's a special quirk of English that we talk about going to "the bank", "the shop", "the newsagent's" etc. when we don't really care which specific location it is :D
I believe that is bring vs take. So, unless are you planning on robbing the pumpkins from the bank, I'd stick with dibawa. :)
