Another function of "Itu"

Beside "Itu" refers to "that / those" in English, it truly has other usages in Indonesian, and of course it makes why Indonesia so much flexible to use in daily conversation.

"Itu" in Article function/ Demonstrative Determiner

As i already explained to you what "itu" is used to describe the subject  to tell its location from the speaker.

The house = rumah itu
That plate = piring itu
The penguin = pinguin itu
That office = kantor itu

Above, we clearly see that "itu" has a description function for english words "that" and "the".

Other difference between Indonesian and English in terms of how to describe noun/ subject is Indonesian put the adjective after the noun. " Itu" modifies the noun.


                                                      Noun + Adjective/ Determiner


"Itu" in Demonstrative Pronoun function


If we've already known which the subject is, and we want to make a description about it, "itu" can be a demonstrative pronoun. This time, "itu" replace the the noun

For example :

-That is good
  ( Itu bagus )

-They like that
  ( Mereka suka itu )

-Those are the oranges i bought yesterday
  ( Itu jeruk-jeruk yang saya beli kemarin )

The sentence above indicates where the position of the oranges