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Indonesian for Beginners Module 2 3 Apr 2013 | 10:35 am
Indonesian for Beginners Module 2 is designed for those who already learned from my previous book Indonesian for Beginners Module 1. Module 2 equips you with the vocabulary, sentence structures and cu...
Contreng 5 Mar 2013 | 01:08 am
Setiap menjelang PEMILU atau pemilihan umum, di negara kita tercinta, kata yang paling populer adalah contreng. Ini bukannya tanpa alasan. Contreng akan digunakan dalam pesta demokrasi tanggal 9 April...
Words for ‘Give’: Kasi(h) and Beri(kan) 2 Sep 2012 | 05:00 pm
In Formal Indonesian memberi, optionally occurring with suffix-kan, is the general word for ‘give’. In Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian the more common word is kasi ~ kasih: Saya suka membantu. Saya kad...
Words for ‘Like, Resembling’: Kayak and Seperti 2 Sep 2012 | 02:02 pm
These mean ‘like’, as in kayak gua/seperti saya means ‘like me’. Seperti is the H variant, being the only one to occur in Formal Indonesian. Kayak, sometimes pronounced kaya, kaye, or keye, is very...
Ngapain and Related Words 2 Sep 2012 | 01:23 pm
In Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian ngapain, based on apa ‘what’, usually means ‘What (are you) doing?’: Elu ngapain di sini? you do.what at here What are you doing here? Hari Sabtu kita mau ngapain don...
Words for ‘So That’: Biar, Agar and Supaya 2 Sep 2012 | 01:10 pm
Biar has a number of related meanings in both forms of Indonesian. It can mean ‘let,allow’: Kalo tangan kanan jalan biar aja tangan kiri di belakang. if hand right move let just hand...
Words for ‘Later’: Entar and Nanti 2 Sep 2012 | 12:25 pm
These are adjuncts of time, meaning ‘later’, usually with the implication that it will be soon. In English future action is usually indicated by other means so that there is rarely a specific...
Indicators of Plurality: Para and Pada 2 Sep 2012 | 11:38 am
The word para is becoming increasingly common in standard Formal Indonesian as a plural marker for humans. Para is an inclusive plural, referring to everyone in the group identified. It immediately pr...
Words for ‘Or’ and ‘Or Not’: Apa and Atau 1 Sep 2012 | 02:22 pm
In Formal Indonesian atau means ‘or’. In Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian apa can occur with the same meaning: Itu sebelum tablo apa sesudah tablo? that before tableau or after tableau Was that before t...
Words for ‘Only, Just’: Cuma, Cuman and Hanya 1 Sep 2012 | 02:07 pm
Hanya is the H word for ‘only, just’. Cuma is much more frequently used than hanya and while it does occur in Formal Indonesian it is infrequent there. It is therefore quite strongly marked for...
