Useful Indonesian Words and Phrases

Good morning Selamat pagi
Good day Selamat siang
Good evening Selamat sore
Good night Selamat malam
Goodbye Selamat tinggal (said by those leaving to people staying)
Goodbye Selamat jalan (said by those staying to people leaving)
Thank you Terima kasih
How are you? Apa kabar?
I'm fine Kabar baik
How much? Berapa
I don't understand Saya tidak mengerti
What is this? Apa ini?
Excuse me Permisi / Ma'af
Where are you going? Mau ke mana?

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Chemist/Pharmacy - Apotik [ah-pot-ik]

Excuse me - Permisi [per-mi-see]

Expensive - Mahal [mah-hahl]

Good morning - Selamat pagi [se-lah-maht par-ghee]

Good afternoon - Selamat siang [se-la-maht see-ahng]

Good evening - Selamat sore [se-la-mutt sore-ray]

Good night (at night) - Selamat malam [se-la-mutt mah-lahm]

Good night (before going to bed) - Selamat tidur [se-la-mutt ti-dur]

How much/many - Berapa [ber-ra-pa]

I want to go... - Saya mau pergi ke [sigh-yer mow (as in cow) purr-ghee ker]

I want ..... - Saya mau [sigh-yer mow]

I don’t want... - Saya tidak mau [sigh-yah ti-duck mow]

No - Tidak [ti-duck]

No, thank you - Tidak, terima kasih [ti-duck, ter-ri-mah car-see]

Please (when asking for help/bargaining) - Tolong [toh-long]

Thank You - Terima Kasih [ter-ree-mar car-see]

Two people - Dua orang [do-u or-rung]

Where is ... - Di mana [dee mah-nah]

You’re welcome - Kembali [kem-bali]


Numbers:

1 - Satu [sah-too]

2 - Dua [doo-u (as in gun]

3- Tiga [ti-gah]

4- Empat [em-putt]

5- Lima [lee-mar]

6- Enam [er-num]

7- Tujuh [too-joo]

8- Delapan [del ah-pahn]

9- Sembilan [sem-bi-lahn] -

10 - Sepuluh [se poo-loo]

they sounds like malay but the pronounciation is a lil different...

do they have the same language?

erm... about 70 to 80% of them are same i guess... like we say terima kasih in malay oso, selamat pagi. selamat malam... we hav all those... only a bit is different like, I dont understand = saya tidak faham, how are you = apa khabar?, good afternoon = selamat tengah hari, but we do hav the word siang, mengerti oso juz that we seldom use that word...

oh i see...should i say its more difficult to learn it than japanese?

erm... i think it's around the same lol

heyy,how come i didn't know there is an indonesian language topic here?
I'm a native Indonesian so I can help you guys with the language.

Basically, Indonesia and Malaysia are originally from the same race.So the language is practically the same,but the accent is different.

masterjz wrote:oh i see...should i say its more difficult to learn it than japanese?

hha you can say so, unfortunately it's very easy to learn, since bahasa (indonesian laguange) doesn't take notice of grammar in daily uses..

everyone here forgot about grammar, and use slang language.. sometimes in formal style there are too many grammatical errors which wasn't noticed..

for somewhat reason i also learn the full-fledged bahasa indonesia..

that's true
having a perfect score in english or mathematics on national examination or maybe both of them can be said as good
in case of bahasa indonesia, having a perfect score is AMAZING
because indonesian sucks at spelling (wrong spelling everywhere)
example:
Giraffe in elementary level said as Jerapah but actually the correct spelling is zarafah.....so the tips are NEVER CARE ABOUT SPELLING like we did

Indonesian languange is easy, but since there are many races the accent is different from race to race, and it sometimes blends with the real indonesian languange, therefore indonesia has like ultrabillion words,

but just to learn the real indonesian languange is easy

japan vs indonesia?
japan = super hard, there is katakana and hiragana, and comes kanjis, man... so freaking hard to learn.

indonesia = normal letters.
abcdefghijklmnop...

^ kana letters aren't so hard once you get past the fact they look very similar to each other (like this: クケ [ku, ke] or ワフ [fu, wa], and はほ [ha, ho] or めぬ [me, nu]). Kanji is another thing...it just takes practice

I notice that Indonesian has a lot of similar words to Tagalog too...like "selamat" and "salamat" and "mahal" .... I guess it makes sense. Philippines and Indonesia are really close geographically.

yeah,thats true..
not beetween Indonesia&Thailand only,Indonesia have a lot similiar words with Malaysia.
like ''budak'' but here have a different meaning.
In Indonesia,''budak'' means ''housekeeper'' but in Malaysia ''budak'' means ''child''
yyeah,just for share the info bout Indonesia similiar words^^

i think budak have deeper meaning than house keeper. we use pembantu rumah tangga for house keeper.

Yes,it's have a deeper meaning in Indonesia...
Budak it's just like some people that we buy for doing a Job...
different like Pembantu rumah tangga,we pay them to help we on the house...,Budak also have a bad meaning.

Indonesia and malaysia do have some similiar word because it come from "melayu people",that was spread in Indonesia & malaysia

budak is slave in bahasa... --a

and in indonesia,there are many regional language,and 'budak' also means 'child' in one of those regional language (e.g sundanese)

these words really help me out thanks hope to see more too.

Tidak, Tidak, Bahasa Indonesia, dan Bahasa melayu itu berbeda, mirip tapi berbeda,

I think japan is interesting languange too, because it have some cool letter, like hiragana, katakana, and kanji,

i know it's hard, because in my school, I learn japannese, especially, when it comes writing hiragana, or katakana

but, both Indonesia and Japaneese is a great languange

AminNah wrote:Tidak, Tidak, Bahasa Indonesia, dan Bahasa melayu itu berbeda, mirip tapi berbeda,

I think japan is interesting languange too, because it have some cool letter, like hiragana, katakana, and kanji,

i know it's hard, because in my school, I learn japannese, especially, when it comes writing hiragana, or katakana

but, both Indonesia and Japaneese is a great languange

Indonesia language and Melayu language is different. but Melayu and Kutai(some area in Borneo) have similar language
I an Indonesian people, so maybe I can help you if you have trouble with Indonesia languange

Waha...
some area in north Sumatra island also use Melayu languange....
but there are different...

No I will not be troubled, I'm from Indonesia,

even, i live In kalimantan (borneo).

Mr1_Star wrote:Waha...
some area in north Sumatra island also use Melayu languange....
but there are different...

i think it's because the geographic position of north sumatra with malaysia which share the same island..

kieru yume wrote:

Mr1_Star wrote:Waha...
some area in north Sumatra island also use Melayu languange....
but there are different...

i think it's because the geographic position of north sumatra with malaysia which share the same island..

no,, sumatra doesn't share the same island with malaysia.. but, kalimantan (borneo) does...

yeah, sumatera and malaysia are not at the same mainland.. but they have so many similarity in culture, especially the language..
may be they come from the same great-grandfather..
due to closeness of geographic position, their culture have influence one to another..

i think bahasa indonesia i easy to learn, compare with japannese, japannese is more difficult...

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