"Ibu berkata agar kami berhati-hati ketika mengendarai mobil ini."

Translation: Mom tells us to be careful when driving this car.

[XavierLamb9]

I'm curious, would the sentence still have the same meaning without the word "agar" in it?

[SongShiQuan]

Yes.

[Raekima]

No

[Leapy3]

It should also be accepted to have "Mother says that....."

[Haakon388572]

Definitely. In many other sentences in this course only the literal translation, which in this case is "says", is accepted.

[kuyaC]

Can "agar" be replaced with "akan" or "kepada" in this context?

[SavitriRishma]

no, the synonyms of "agar" is "supaya". if you wanna use "kepada" in this context, you can make the sentence : ibu berkata "kepada" kami "untuk/supaya/agar" berhati-hati.......

[kuyaC]

Wouldn't a better English translation then be:
"Mother says, that we should be careful when driving this car."

[Neil423241]

tells us... = says to us to be careful... ?

[Gwyn_ap_nudd]

So what exactly does reduplication do?