English – Indonesian Passive Sentences in Cookbook

Abstract

This research focuses on the English-Indonesian passive
sentence in cookbook. The aim of this research is to find out
how the English passive sentence translated into Indonesian
passive one cookbook. The data source was taken from
English cookbook entitled The Essential Book of Sauces &
Dressings written by Lowery, et.al and published by
Periplus, Singapore and the translation into Indonesian
entitled “Saus dan Dressing yang esensial” translated by
Hadyana P. and published by Periplus, Indonesia. The
methods of collecting data are observation and
documentation. Scintific article tends to use passive
sentence rather than active one. This is intended to show the
product and disappear the doer. In doing the works, the
translator translated English passive voice into Indonesian
passive voice in several ways. The results show in English
cookbook found some passive constructions which are
translated also into passive construction in TL. The passive
construction in English cookbook are in the form of present
tense (is/are + V past participle), modal passive (modal + be
+ V past participle), present perfect tense (has + been + V
past participle). The translation in Indonesian are translated
into passive construction by using verbs added by prefix di-,
active construction with active verbs, and verbs added by
prefix ter-.