"My uncle is my aunt's husband."

Translation: Paman saya adalah suami tante saya.

[adesdas]

I don't understand how to know about the word order in this sentence.

Why "my aunt's husband" is:

suami tante saya

and cannot be

tante saya suami

What is the rule?

Thx

[MuhammadAnshory]

Indonesian language rule is different from english, we put possesive pronoun always at the last..

i.e my book = buku saya
My aunt = tante saya
My aunt' husband = suami tante saya

[Babylonix]

Intriguing to learn that in Bahasa Indonesia "tante" means "aunt" as it does in Dutch and German.
Must be one of the many Dutch words in the Indonesian lexicon.

Best regards!

[RobertEddy]

When do we use the "adalah" and when do we leave it out?

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Halo teman! The word "adalah" is a predicate marker. So, when the subject is known, it can be dropped, but the speaker would use a stop, a pause in the place of "adalah".

This sentence would be:

Paman saya (pause) suami tante saya.

I hope it it helps.

Selamat belajar! :)

[lockers001]

I like your explanation. I usually tell people to use adalah for emphasis the subject. I like you explanation better.

[RobertEddy]

Thanks, your comment really cleared up my adalah confusion.

[Karthik03121811]

Pamanku adalah suami kepada tanteku shd be correct

[MuhammadAnshory]

You don't need to use conjunction to show possesive, thus kepada is not necessary

[TarjeiGrnv]

An Indonesian friend told me i shouldn't use "paman" and "tante" in the same sentence, because "paman" is etymologically Indonesian, and "tante" Dutch.
It should either be "paman" and "bibi" (native Indonesian words) or "om" and "tante" (imported dutch words).

[Thuy84379]

Why is this answer not accepted "Pamanku adalah suami tante saya."?

[H.pJVc]

why not Pamannya instead of Paman saya?

[Karthik03121811]

Pamanya indicate someone's uncle and "not mine. Mine are defined as "ku", äku", "saya"

[H.pJVc]

Okay, thank you

[Blasteran]

Tanteku should be accepted