"Saya mau turun ke bawah."

Translation: I want to go down.

[evabstracted]

"Turun ke bawah" - can turun be used witout "bawah"? In the word "turun" there is already an indication of "going down" so why is "ke bawah" used here?

[H9r1n24]

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/28696878

[Annita1980]

Yes you can say it without ke bawah.

[Arkonide]

Good question. I want to know that too.

[Mary74889]

It seems to me that "

[Mary74889]

• "ke bawah" adds another layer of specificity. If I were in the crow's nest of a ship and wanted to go from there to below deck, I would probably say "Saya mau turun ke bawah." Your thoughts?

[v-point]

Nothing said about stairs, from a hill you wouldn't go downstairs

[Origin5world5_]

This is interesting. In Dutch, like English, this sounds unnecessarily repetitive, but in Arabic we can also say "Anzilu ila ttaht". 'Anzilu' means 'I go down' and 'ila at-taht' means 'to the lower spot, to down*'. So you also say it twice.
And you can only say 'anzil', 'I go down'.
Arabic is really helping me a lot to understand Indonesian, not just vocabulary, but also the formation of sentences.

[Ants_L]

Why is wrong "I want to go downstairs."?

[JuliaEdwar479451]

There's lots of other ways to "go down" stairs doesn't really come into it!