"Siapa pembeli hotel itu?"

Translation: Who is the buyer of that hotel?

[StephanieC737049]

Could "Who bought that hotel?" be an acceptable translation?

[maccamanx]

Surely 'who is the hotel buyer' should be an acceptable translation? Who is the buyer of the hotel is just adding particles that necessary in common English.

[mapmanic]

This is exceedingly strange. "Siapa," apparently, does not behave the same way as "who" does in English, where the interrogative pronoun can simply replace a noun phrase. In Bahasa, though, "siapa" cannot replace the subject in "Andi adalah pembeli hotel itu" where we must drop the "adalah" from the sentence.