KALA DALAM BAHASA MELAYU MANADO

Abstract

This research aims to understand and to describe the process and rules of the
tenses form in Manado Malay language. This research is conducted in Manado
which is almost all the civilians use Manado Malay language as their daily
communication.
This Research uses qualitative descriptive method and structural linguistics
method as an approaching to do this research.The data collecting was in terms of
recording and interviewing with informan and analyzed by Miles and Huberman
model of data analysis such as data reduction, data display and data conclusion.
The result shows that there are three forms of tenses in Manado Malay languages.
Those are present, past and future. The present tense is form by a prefix ba- which
is bound to a verb; past tense is formed by a partikel so and followed by a verb
and; future tense is formed by partikel mo and followed by a verb.
Keywords: tenses, process, Manado-Malay, language