CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSION
One of the problems that translators need to solve in translating a text into Indonesian language is gerund because there is no gerund system in Indonesian. The reason why the gerund system does not exist in the Indonesian language is that the concept of gerund is different from nominalization in the Indonesian language. Nominalization is derived from a verb or an adjective by adding affixes such as pe+V, pe-+V+ -an, ke-+V+ -an and V+ -an. A Gerund is derived from a verb by adding the participle -ing. Besides that, nominalization only has a substantival meaning. The gerund, however, has a verbal meaning or a substantival meaning.
In translating gerund, the translator may try to maintain the form of a gerund which is a noun by adding affixes such as pe- an, ke-an, ke- and -an. This is one of the procedures in translating the gerund into Indonesian language. However, in practice, a translator has to use other procedures to achieve a dynamic equivalence where the meaning is the most important factor to transfer and not the form. The translator may use a class shift by adding affixes such as be-, me-, me- -kan, di- and ter- because he or she finds that using affixes such as pe- an, ke-an, pe- and -an is not possible or it will make the translation sounds unnatural. This is because there is not a noun that has a verbal meaning in Indonesian. Gerund has a noun form but it may have a verbal meaning. In fact, mostly gerund has a verbal meaning.
The aims of this research are to describe the equivalence of gerund from English into Indonesian language in E-love novel by Caroline Plaisted bilingual edition and to describe the procedures used by the translator in translating gerund into Indonesian language in E-love novel by Caroline Plaisted bilingual edition.
