A common difficulty faced by learners of Bahasa Indonesia is the use of affixes. Different situations call the use of different affixes. On top of that, a particular affix takes different forms, depending on what is the first letter of the word that it will be attached to.
For instance, the affix "men" takes the form of
(a) "me" if the first letter of the word is l, m, n, r, w, y, "ny"
(b) "mem" if the first letter is b, p, f, v (if p, then the p is dropped in the process)
(c) "men" if the first letter is d, t, j, c ,z (if t, then the t is dropped in the process)
(d) "meny" if the first letter is s, but the s is dropped in the process
(e) "meng" if the first letter is k, g, "kh", a, e, i, o, u (if k, then the k is dropped in the process)
(f) "menge" if the word is an one-syllable word.
When explaining this set of rules the other day, Jeremiah's grammar teacher said that there was no need to memorize the rules. Instead, it would suffice to remember the phonetic rationale for the rules as illustrated in the photo.
Hands up and out if you had at one point or another told Jeremiah that Bahasa Indonesia was an easy language.
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