"Kakek meninggal di pertengahan dekade lalu."

Translation: Grandfather died in the middle of the last decade.

[attilagaspar]

"in the middle of the previous decade" should be the correct translation

[JamesTWils]

Even "the last decade" would work, but it definitely needs the article.

[tsuj1g1r1]

Does it? I mean "in the middle of last year" works. Can we say for sure "last decade" can't work as well?

[JamesTWils]

I have never heard it or seen it written. English has no language authority like the Academie Francaise, so if some native English-speaker says this somewhere, then it can work, in a sense. I would at least point out that this is not standard in the larger English-speaking populations.

[hr1982]

We say yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon, and yesterday evening, but last night, last week, last month, and last year, and the last decade, the last century, and the last millennium.

[Alim988845]

I think Duolingo should pick another word for Meninggal, such as Passed Away or Deceased.
Because Dead/Die is Mati.

[doubletops1]

Well dekade is easy to spot but more difficult on the ears. Terrible way to pronounce a word lol

[MehitaRaha]

I am Indonesian and you make the grammar is more complicated lol. Ribet tau ngga sih

[Arracher]

Nope it just much funnier ^^