"They still cook rice."
Translation:Mereka tetap memasak nasi.
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Id have thought mereka masih memasak nasi. Tetap has a sense of permanence which i dont get from the ebglish word still.
Yes you are right "tetap" is usually associated with a sense of permanence. Therefore, "masih" is a better word to use in this cotext.
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Hi there! In the Malaysian language we have a specific word to cook rice: menanak nasi. Do you use it in Indonesian too? Mekasih!
Does this sentence imply more information? I remember reading somewhere that tetap is what you would use in the sense of "despite".
EG: I told them I don't like rice, but they still cook rice.
I thought it will be "Mereka masih masak nasi" btw im Indonesian, i just want to try the Indonesian (/ω＼)
mereka tetap memasak beras should be accepted, since the word nasi refers to rice which is already cooked
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I see what you are saying, however in English when we say we are cooking something, we name the end result, not the ingredients - "I am baking a cake" rather than "I am baking cake batter". In Indonesian it is the same, hence the use of nasi over beras.
