"Labu kita dibawa ke bank."

Translation: Our pumpkin is taken to a bank.

[8enP1jip]

Should be "Our pumpkin is taken to the bank."

[smeagol_lied]

Also, it's seems like a weird sentence anyway.

[JamesTWils]

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.

[sapere__aude]

You don't keep all your cash money safe at home inside a pumpkin piggy bank, James?

Strange man!

[joeldipops]

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

[Tim371925]

If it said "banknya," it'd be "the bank" but without that, the indefinite article is implied, therefore "a bank".

[joeldipops]

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.

[Ruessinof]

What was the contributor smoking writing that??

[donny309620]

So, is pumpkin the legal tender in Indonesia now? ;-)

[LaszloBoer]

Ridiculousness ridiculously ridiculing ridiculous.

[Ceri947554]

What a ridiculous sentence.

[Mal205614]

I can't see this sentence being used a lot in Indonesia, so why waste space on this nonsense type of sentence

[ZoeVincent5]

This is normal; pumpkins are taken to a bank,but why??--
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[Emil248727]

They're holding the pumkin hostage, it happens all the time in Indonesia

[Jan320480]

why would anyone take a pumpkin to the bank?

[Difa01011]

The better question is: Why not?

[S9N1t]

Maybe it's a food bank. I have myself taken pumpkins to the food bank.

[malcolmjrogers]

I have received a pumpkin from a foodbank.

[Pablitooss]

Maybe they will start to rob a bank with a pumpkin mask.

[Doug264842]

Now we need to be taught how to say "I would like to deposit a pumpkin."

[Green_wood]

Seriously?

[NudibranchsRcool]

Agree It should be "....taken to the bank."

[Ria___]

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

[8enP1jip]

I think it previously said "our pumpkin is taken to bank". You're right though, "a bank" is correct as well.

[sapere__aude]

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

[RobynMille10]

It can also be our pumpkin is taken to the bank.

[evebergin1]

That's because we are making pumpkin soup for the staff's lunch.

[LaraPinto22]

why would you take your pumpkin to a bank anyway?

[postaestetix]

Bank labu dibuka lagi-lagi!

[noey536981]

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.

[TarjeiGrnv]

Maybe the person who wrote this, is a pumpkin farmer delivering food to a bank's in-house cafeteria?