"The black coat"

Translation: Mantel hitam itu

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Is 'itu' necessary? Because wouldn't that be /that/ black coat?

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Is 'itu' necessary? Because wouldn't that be /that/ black coat?

[1CN5ijzC]

the word "The" cannot be translated into Indonesian, especially without any context, so it usually translated into "itu", "ini" or "-nya".

Unfortunately this doesn't work the other way round, so if we want to translate "itu" back to English, we should use "that", not "the"