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"english": "This story saddened Adam to the point that he cried.",
"text": "Cerita ini menyedihkan Adam sehingga dia ternangis.",
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"english": "If you do that, you'll only make your parents sad.",
"text": "Kalau kau buat tu, nanti kau sedihkan mak ayah kau je doh.",
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"english": "Like a leader, King Parrot told his plan to the other parrots.",
"ref": "1371 CE [c. 1296–1316 CE], Kadi Hasan, Hikayat Bayan Budiman (fiction), translation of Tutinama by Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi (in Persian); transcribed from Jawi script into the Latin alphabet Ekawati Ekawati, Doni Setiyawan, editors, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, 2016, →ISBN:",
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"Used to indicate transitive verbs:",
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"text": "beli (“to buy”) + -kan → belikan (“to buy for”)",
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"english": "Adam bought this book for his mum.",
"text": "Adam membelikan buku ini untuk emaknya.",
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"english": "Adam, can you buy some food for your little brother for a bit.",
"text": "Adam, mintak belikan makanan untuk adik kamu sekejap.",
"type": "example"
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"english": "Come hither. The fourth for debtors.",
"ref": "1303 CE, Terengganu Inscription Stone:",
"roman": "Datang berikan. Keempat orang berpiutan",
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"text": "Cerita ini menyedihkan Adam sehingga dia ternangis.",
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"english": "If you do that, you'll only make your parents sad.",
"text": "Kalau kau buat tu, nanti kau sedihkan mak ayah kau je doh.",
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},
{
"english": "Like a leader, King Parrot told his plan to the other parrots.",
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"english": "Adam bought this book for his mum.",
"text": "Adam membelikan buku ini untuk emaknya.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Adam, can you buy some food for your little brother for a bit.",
"text": "Adam, mintak belikan makanan untuk adik kamu sekejap.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Come hither. The fourth for debtors.",
"ref": "1303 CE, Terengganu Inscription Stone:",
"roman": "Datang berikan. Keempat orang berpiutan",
"text": "داٮع ٮرىكں، كامڡ[تْ]اورع ٮرٯهوٮع",
"type": "quote"
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"word": "-i"
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"word": "-kan"
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