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Anna membelikan ibunya jaket kulit.<br />

Subject Verb Primary object Secondary object<br />

Agent Beneficiary Patient<br />

Anna bought her mother a leather jacket.<br />

The sets of examples below should further clarify the benefactive use of<br />

meN-kan.. Both sentences in each set are transitive, but only the b<br />

examples are benefactive. .<br />

- _<br />

I a Sita membuka pintu kamar.<br />

Sita opened the bedroom door;<br />

b<br />

Sita membukakan ibunya pintu kamar.<br />

(Literally: Sita opened for her mother the dooc)<br />

Sita opened the door for her mother;<br />

2 a John menulis surat kepada temannya.<br />

John wrote a letter to his friend.<br />

b<br />

John menuliskan saya surat.<br />

(Lierally:]ohn wrote for me a letter.)<br />

John wrote a letter for me.<br />

3 a Rina membuat kue coklat.<br />

Rna made a chocolate cake. -<br />

b<br />

Rina membuatkan ibu kue coklat.<br />

(Literally: Rina made for mother a chocolate cake.)<br />

Rina made a chocolate cake for mother.<br />

The benefactive meN-kan does not, however, always have two objects.<br />

When the beneficiary is known or assumed, often it is not mentioned.<br />

For example, in the following exchange, the beneficiary is B, but the<br />

word kamu is not mentioned. The suffix -kan already indicates that the<br />

action is done for someone else.<br />

A: Siapa yang membukakan pintu ketika kamu pulang tadi malam?<br />

Who opened the door (for you) when you came home last night?<br />

B: Bapak.<br />

Father:<br />

Mentioning the beneficiary (hence mentioning kamu twice), as shown<br />

below, is often unnecessary.<br />

Siapa yang membukakan k_amu pintu ketika kamu pulang tadi<br />

malam?<br />

-4 The following are sets of verbs with the same base word. Write a<br />

sentence in ~Gdonesian for each verb in the set: one simple transitive<br />

and the other benefactive, as shown above. For the benefactive<br />

sentences, you can choose to mention or not mention the beneficiary.<br />

1 a mengambil (get)<br />

b mengambilkan (get for someone)<br />

2 a menutup (close, shut)<br />

b menutupkan (close/shut for someone)

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