Selamat Datang! How is your progress in learning Indonesian? Have you checked how to learn Indonesian alphabets easy and fast as well as Indonesian language pronunciation guide? It’s time to move on to some Indonesian vocabularies, and today we’ll learn about numbers.
Numbers are very important in daily conversations too. For example, to know the price of items in the market or in shops, to talk about clothing or shoe size, to talk about phone numbers, all of them require you to know Indonesian number words.
Indonesian Words for Numbers
The good news is it’s fairly easy because you just need to master some number words as most words for bigger numbers are derived from their root numbers (for example, the word for ‘2’ is dua, and the word for ’12’ is dua belas). Check out this table to help you out:
| Number | English | Indonesian |
| 0 | zero | nol |
| 1 | one | satu |
| 2 | two | dua |
| 3 | three | tiga |
| 4 | four | empat |
| 5 | five | lima |
| 6 | six | enam |
| 7 | seven | tujuh |
| 8 | eight | delapan |
| 9 | nine | sembilan |
| 10 | ten | sepuluh |
| 11 | eleven | sebelas |
| 12 | twelve | dua belas |
| 13 | thirteen | tiga belas |
| 14 | fourteen | empat belas |
| 15 | fifteen | lima belas |
| 16 | sixteen | enam belas |
| 17 | seventeen | tujuh belas |
| 18 | eighteen | delapan belas |
| 19 | nineteen | sembilan belas |
| 20 | twenty | dua puluh |
| 100 | one hundred | seratus / satu ratus |
| 1,000 | one thousand | seribu / satu ribu |
| 10,000 | ten thousand | sepuluh ribu |
| 100,000 | one hundred thousand | seratus ribu / satu ratus ribu |
| 1,000,000 | one million | sejuta / satu juta |
| 10,000,000 | ten million | sepuluh juta |
| 100,000,000 | one hundred million | seratus juta / satu ratus juta |
| 1,000,000,000 | one billion | semiliar / satu miliar |
| 10,000,000,000 | ten billion | sepuluh miliar |
| 100,000,000,000 | one hundred billion | seratus miliar / satu ratus miliar |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | one trillion | setriliun / satu triliun |
| 10,000,000,000,000 | ten trillion | sepuluh triliun |
| 100,000,000,000,000 | one hundred trillion | seratus triliun / satu ratus triliun |
Now, how about other numbers like 32? Just like in English, in Indonesian we just have to combine the respective digits in the number. Taking 32 as an example below!
Indonesian Words for Numbers Explanations
Here is the explanations of Indonesian words for numbers:
3 = tiga; 2 = dua
- 3 is in the tens position of the number, so we put ‘puluh’ (the Indonesian word for tens) next to it. Combining them together, it becomes ‘tiga puluh dua’.
- Using the same concept, how do you read 54 in Indonesian?
5 = lima; 4 = empat
- Lima + puluh + empat = Lima puluh empat (54)
- For numbers with hundreds, you also need to add the word for hundreds in Indonesian, which is ‘ratus’.
So, for 127,
- 100 = seratus; 2 = dua; 7 = tujuh
- Seratus + dua + puluh + tujuh = seratus dua puluh tujuh
How about 348?
- 300 = tiga ratus; 4 = empat, 8 = delapan
- Tiga ratus + empat + puluh = delapan = tiga ratus empat puluh delapan
Pretty simple isn’t it? Don’t forget to learn ways to introduce yourself in Indonesian as well as these useful Indonesian conversation phrases to help you the next time you want to practice speaking Bahasa. Good luck!