Lesson XXVI
Go and complain at the police-station— Pergi-lah mengadu di-balei (or rumah pasong).
He has been arrested— Dia sudah kĕna tangkap.
He has been locked up— Dia sudah kĕna tutop.
What is his offence?— Apa ka-salah-an-nia?
What do they charge him with?— Apa di-tudoh-kan di-atas-nia?
For how many days has he been detained?— Sudah bĕr-apa, hari dia kĕna tahan?
This is not his first offence— Bukan sa-kali ini sahaja yang dia buat jahat.
Do you know him?— Tuan kenal-kah dia?
No, I see him now for the first time— Tidak, baharu sa-kali ini sahaya me-lihat.
People say that he is a great opium-smoker— Kata orang dia kuat makan chandu.
He broke into the house of a Chinese in the middle of the night— Dia pechah masok rumah orang China tengah malam.
He was not alone; there were several others with him— Bukan dia sa’orang ada juga dua tiga ampat orang kawan-nia.
They were all Malays— Melayu belaka41 ka-sumua-nia.
He was not the principal, but an accomplice— Bukan dia kapala tetapi dia menyerta-i sama.
Their intention was to steal the gold ornaments— Kahandak hati-nia mahu churi barang-barang mas.
He used abusive and improper language— Dia ber-maki-maki dengan yang ta’patut.
What is the name of the defendant?— Siapa nama yang kĕna adu itu?
What the prosecutor says is quite right— Benar juga saperti kata adu-an.
Exercise
Maka mantri pelanduḳ itu-pun ber-lari-lah pergi men-dapat-kan raja gajah itu seraya ber-pikir di-dalam hati-nia, “handak meng-halau-kan gajah ini ter-lalu susah-kah? ada-pun saperti sagala raja-raja itu jikalau handak mem-bunoh orang itu saperti laku orang ter-tawa bahwa damikian-lah raja ini-pun dengan sa-buntar ini juga aku halau-kan jikalau damikian baik-lah aku naik ka-atas gunong ini,” maka ka-lihat-an-lah raja gajah itu serta dengan sagala tantra-nia maka ber-sĕru-sĕru-lah pelanduḳ itu dengan niaring suara-nia kata-nia “ada-kah tuanku serta tantra tuanku sakalian baik?” maka menulih-lah raja gajah itu serta dengan marah-nia kata-nia “Hei benatang yang kechil lagi hina apa sebab-nia angkau menyĕru aku di tengah jalan dengan ka-laku-an be-adab42 ini siapa-kah angkau ini?”
41. Belaka (entirely, completely, altogether) is often used parenthetically in a sentence, corresponding in some degree to such expressions as, “it must be said,” “I should say,” “let me add,” “you must know.” Ka-sumua-nia, the whole of them, a collective substantive formed from sumua, all. Numerals are dealt with in the same way, as, ka-dua-nia, both of them.
42. Be-adab, “unmannerly,” a compound adjective (Hindustani) formed by prefixing the privative particle be- to the noun adab. Malays also borrow from the same source the word be-hosh, “stupified,” generally mispronounced by them bi-us.