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"Apparently her shirt is white, not black."
Translation:Rupanya kemeja dia putih, bukan hitam.
December 9, 2018
8 Comments
Brian260733
218
Exactly. My only guess is that we are supposed to think of "black" as a noun (same as "blackness") in Indonesian.
JarlNydahl
851
So if we don't mention that it is white, only that it isn't black: Rupanya kemeja dia bukan hitam. Doesn't feel right to me.
[deactivated user]
I have the same question as the others. "Putih" and "hitam" function as adjectives here, so it should be "tidak", no?