Sentence Structure (SVO)

By Speak Indo, from the Speak Indo Indonesian course.

Indonesian follows Subject-Verb-Object, just like English. No articles, no conjugation.

How it works

Indonesian sentences use the familiar Subject + Verb + Object order. The language has no articles ('a', 'an', 'the'), no grammatical gender, and no verb conjugation, verbs stay the same regardless of person or tense.

Examples

• Saya makan nasi.
  I eat rice.
• Dia minum kopi.
  He/She drinks coffee.
• Kami belajar bahasa Indonesia.
  We study Indonesian.