"Dugaan ini dikatakan oleh profesor itu."

Translation: This guess is said by that professor.

[donny309620]

The English translation is really akward :-(

[arielkbt]

"This guess was made by that professor"

You can't "say" a guess.

[joeldipops]

"Was stated" works ok too.

[BinginClare]

Duolingo, this is terrible English :( You need some more native English speakers to help with your poor English translations

[CherylTrin]

I am a native English speaker, and this translation hardly makes sense!

[BarefootB]

I think 'assumption' as alternative to 'guess' should be considered correct as well

[Chiliem]

Indeed, 'to make an assumption' sounds more natural to my ears than 'to make a guess' - I'm not a native and I'm not sure if natives agree with me on this.
So my question to a native: which is the most logical infinitive missing in 'to ... a guess'. I'd say to state. Are 'to do' and 'to make' passable here?

Although there is some nuance between assumption and guess.

[joeldipops]

You'd be fairly likely to "have" a guess. You could get away with "make" a guess, but it can feel a bit off. You would never, "do" a guess and most commonly you wouldn't use any of those, instead you'd just use guess as a verb.

A: "What did you do this week?"
B: "Have a guess!"
A: "Well, if I had to make a guess, I'd guess you probably sat on your arse all week and watched TV.

[Andy481779]

Personally, I'd "hazard" a guess.

[KrisHoki]

"This guess was made by that professor" seems better. I agree with joeldipops too

[UpzahwvW]

Good word-for-word translation, but unnatural-sounding in English.

[CorSleutel2701]

Ridicilous sentence.

[Simone713903]

Maybe the professor guessed would be better

[mapmanic]

"This conjecture was expressed by that professor." seems to be a more plausible translation.

[LuQLingo]

In English we might …
‘hazard a guess’, ‘make an assumption’, ‘give an estimate’, ‘state an opinion’.

[Chris269076]

The target language is Indonesian. Unfortunately, the English translation cannot be directly made. The best translation would be, "This guess was made by that professor.", in my opinion.

[Stu97088]

"This conjecture is stated by that professor." Makes some sense and is accepted.

[TarjeiGrnv]

The root word "kata" means "word", so I guess "dikatakan" means something along the lines of "is worded"? Is "dikatakan" only used for expressing something orally, or can it also be used about written statements?