kalimat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic كَلِمَات (kalimāt, “word, speech, statement”). Doublet of kalimah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈli.mat̚]
• Rhymes: -mat, -at, -t
• Hyphenation: ka‧li‧mat

Noun

kalimat (plural kalimat-kalimat, first-person possessive kalimatku, second-person possessive kalimatmu, third-person possessive kalimatnya)

1. (grammar) sentence: a grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

   kalimat pasif ― passive sentence

Synonyms

• ayat (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

• mengalimatkan
• pengalimatan

 

• kalimat aktif
• kalimat bebas
• kalimat berita
• kalimat bersusun
• kalimat dasar
• kalimat deklaratif
• kalimat dwitransitif
• kalimat eliptis
• kalimat inversi
• kalimat kompleks
• kalimat kunci
• kalimat lengkap
• kalimat majemuk
• kalimat majemuk bertingkat
• kalimat majemuk setara
• kalimat menyimpang
• kalimat minor
• kalimat pasif
• kalimat perintah
• kalimat simpleks
• kalimat tanya
• kalimat terbelah
• kalimat tunggal

 

Further reading

• “kalimat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.