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Indonesian and its negligible inflected words
If you are someone who is trying to find a new language to learn, then Indonesian is a good choice! Well, apart from the fact that I am Indonesian, I earnestly L.O.V.E Indonesian. And I think you will be in the same wave-length as mine once you know this language because it is the simplest language in the world! (don't believe me, I only know several foreign languages :P)
Our words do not change no matter the tenses, the subjects, the numbers and the genders. You only need one word to use in any kind of situations. The only thing you need to do is to add some markers for different tenses. You can see how the word form of "memakan", or "eat" in English, remains the same in the examples below:
I eat apples everyday ==> saya memakan buah apel setiap hari
She eats apples everyday ==> dia memakan buah apel setiap hari
I am eating an apple ==> saya sedang memakan sebutir buah apel
She is eating an apple ==> dia sedang memakan sebutir buah apel
I ate some apples yesterday ==> dia memakan beberapa buah apel kemaren
I have eaten some apples ==> saya telah memakan beberapa buah apel
I was eating an apple when she came ==> saya sedang memakan sebutir buah apel saat dia datang
See how we only need one word in those examples while you need to change it into five forms in English, depending on the tenses and the subjects. You will also notice that we use no supporting verbs. You can use this one-for-all word without needing to worry whether you are using the right form or not, because there are no other forms! How handy is that?
-Very well-written, you needed only minor correction. Your English is impressive.
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