menurunkan
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lajur khusus menurunkan penumpang ― special line for dropping off passengers
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay menurunkan, from Classical Malay menurunkan. Equivalent to turun + meng- -kan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /mənuˈrunkan/
- Rhymes: -unkan
- Syllabification: me‧nu‧run‧kan
Verb
menurunkan
- to lower
- to drop off (to allow passengers to alight)
- (linguistics) to derive
Conjugation
| Conjugation of turun (meng-, intransitive) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root | turun | ||||
| Active | Involuntary | Passive | Basic / Imperative |
Jussive | |
| Active | – | – | – | – | – |
| Locative | menuruni | terturuni | dituruni | turuni | turunilah |
| Causative / Applicative1 | menurunkan | terturunkan | diturunkan | turunkan | turunkanlah |
| Causative | |||||
| Active | memperturun | terperturun | diperturun | perturunkan | perturunlah |
| Locative | memperturuni | terperturuni | diperturuni | perturuni | perturunilah |
| Causative / Applicative1 | memperturunkan | terperturunkan | diperturunkan | perturunkan | perturunkanlah |
| 1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning. | |||||
Malay
Etymology
From meng- -kan + turun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mənurunkan/
- Rhymes: -ənurunkan, -nurunkan, -urunkan, -runkan, -unkan, -kan, -an
- (Johor-Riau) IPA(key):
Verb
menurunkan
- (transitive) to make something go down, to lower
- menurunkan pangkat
- to lower one's position, to demote
- (transitive) to pass down, to make someone inherit (a trait etc.)
- Synonym: mewariskan
- Mungkinkah bakatnya diturunkan daripada ayahnya?
- Could it be that he inherited his talent from his father?
Further reading
- “menurunkan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.