Posted by pakguru on November 17th, 2016 | 0 comments | bayar, coherence, IELTS, Indo English, speaking, writing
In Australia I will need a lot of money to pay my basic needs.
This is obviously a translation problem.
Indonesian has different word forms to communicate different meanings – bayar, bayar kepada, bayari, and bayarkan. English, on the other hand, only has ‘pay’ and ‘pay for’:
In the first picture (below), a man is paying a woman for some vegetables:
In the next illustration, a man is paying some fruit and vegetables. He’s giving money to the fruit and vegetables:
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