Welcome back to MasteringBahasa! How is your progress in learning Indonesian? To learn this language, you need to have a good balance between conversation skills, grammar, and vocabulary. To improve your conversation skills, you can check out useful Indonesian conversation phrases and Indonesian phrases for travellers. For grammar,you can start with Indonesian grammar structure for beginners.
For today, we’ll focus on vocabulary, more particularly on words starting with the letter F. Previously, there are other vocabulary articles with words starting with different letters, like:
How to Say The F Word in Indonesian?
Now, it’s time to learn about Indonesian words starting with F, along with their pronunciation and meanings!
- fajar (fuh-jurr) = dawn
- fakir (fuh-keer) = poor people
- faks (fux) = fax
- faksi (fuk-see) = faction
- fakta (fuk-tuh) = fact
- fana (fuh-nuh) = useless
- fans (fans) = fan
- fase (fuh-se) = phase
- fasih (fuh-seeh) = fluent
- fatal (fuh-tull) = fatal
- fatwa (fut-wuh) = advice
- fauna (fau-nuh) = fauna (relating to animals world)
- fenol (feh-noll) = phenol (a type of chemical substance)
- feri (fe-ree) = ferry (a type of ship)
- feses (fay-ses) = faeces
- fetus (fe-toos) = fetus
- fiber (fi-burr) = fiber
- figur (fee-goor) = figure
- fiksi (fick-see) = fiction
- film (film) = film
- filum (fee-loom) = phylum (a biology term for a level of classification of living things)
- final (fee-null) = final
- finis (fee-nees) = finish
- firma (feer-muh) = firm (e.g law firm)
- fisik (fee-seek) = physical
- fisis (fee-sees) = physical
- fit (fit) = fit
- fitri (fee-tree) = relating to someone’s original character traits
- fitur (fee-toor) = feature
- flat (flat) = flatÂ
- flora (flow-ruh) = flora (relating to plants world)
- flu (flu) = flu
- fluks (floox) = flux
- fokus (fow-koos) = focus
- fonem (fow-nemm) = phonem
- forum (fow-room) = forum
- fosil (foh-seel) = fossil
- foto (foh-tow) = photo
- foton (foh-ton) = photon (light particles – a term used in physics)
- frasa (fruh-suh) = phrase
- frase (fruh-se) = phrase
- fungi (foo-ngee) = fungi (a general term for molds, yeasts, mushrooms in science)
- fusi (foo-see) = fusion
Hopefully you’ll learn a lot of new words through this article! As you can see, there are some words directly adapted from the English language although their pronunciation in Bahasa Indonesia is different—for example, feri, feses, film, final, forum, fosil, and fungi. Some words are similar and their pronunciation is also completely the same, like flora and fauna.
This is because Indonesia adapts some words from other languages. However, there are also unique words in Indonesian with no English translation, so do check them out too! Meanwhile, hope you know  how to say the f word in Indonesian now!
Good luck on your journey in learning more Indonesian words! Terima Kasih!