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How Many Indonesian Words are Thought to be Dutch Origin?

As same as many other countries, Indonesia also felt the colonialism from some other countries, especially from western countries. The famous colonialism and the longest coloniali sm of Indonesia had ever felt came from the country called Netherland. Almost more than 350 years, Netherland colonialized Indonesia, from 1602 up to 1949. The Dutch, that was […]

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Grammar

Meaning of Indonesian Prefixes – Formula – Examples – Worksheet

As you know, understand Forming Indonesian Words & Using Indonesian Affixes is really important. You have learned many form of Indonesian Prefixes, as well as Indonesian Prefixes and Suffixes. There, you learn how to form a new word using affixes and also morphology (study of word forming) rule in Bahasa Indonesia. Then, right now let’s […]

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Vocabulary

A-Z Indonesian Language Useful Words (Examples and Meaning)

Hello, everyone. Welcome back! When we learn about language, we will talk about vocabulary for sure because it is as important as Indonesian Grammar Rules or Indonesian Part of Speech. Therefore, you must collect as much lexical resources as you can to master Bahasa Indonesia. At this opportunity, we will discuss about Indonesian Language Useful […]

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Phrases

A-Z Common Words for Occupations in Indonesian Language

Welcome back! What is your dream job? A scientist or humanitarian? I believe everyone would end up in work-life, like it or not. In case you want to live and work in Indonesia, you should know common words for occupation. Every language of course will its uniqueness in terms of occupation vocabulary. Therefore, you also […]

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Vocabulary

A-Z Words to Get You Anywhere in Indonesian – Meaning

Welcome back! Selamat Datang Kembali!  After learning about Indonesian Formal Language as well as How to Greet People in Indonesian, now let’s learn about Words to Get You Anywhere in Indonesian. Take a look at the lists! Read also: Useful Words to Get You Anywhere in Indonesia and Indonesian Essential Phrases Indonesian Noun Here are all […]

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Vocabulary

A-Z Useful Words to Get You Anywhere in Indonesia

Hi! Welcome back! Indonesia is the fourth biggest country in the world and also fourth most populated one. It also consists more than 17,000 islands and diverse ethnicity with their own culture. But, we have one national language that unite us, which is Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, after learn about useful words to get you anywhere […]

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Linguistics

Indonesian Word Derivation – The Origins and Development

Bahasa Indonesia is rooted from Malay languages which is also the same root language used in Malaysia. Besides rooted from Malay language, bahasa Indonesia also absorbed words from other languages which is known as loanwords. Absorbing words from other languages is mostly because of trading, colonization, or simply due to cultural influence. Here’s the material […]

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Vocabulary

All Indonesian Words Starting with X – Alphabet – Meaning

Hey our dearest readers! How are you today ? Hopefully you always feel happy, healthy, and also grateful. In this session, our lesson is still related to gaining Indonesian vocabulary. So taht, we will talk about the Indonesian words that begins with X. The letter X either in English or in Indonesian language is same. […]

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Vocabulary

200+ Indonesian Daily Words – Meaning

Hi! Welcome back! Of course you have learned many Indonesian words, from Useful Indonesian Words and Phrases as well as Indonesian Words Derived from Dutch. Now, it is just the time to add more knowledge about Indonesian Daily Words. Before that, you could also check these following articles: Indonesian Language Phrase Book Indonesian Everyday Phrases […]

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50+ Indonesian Words That Start with W – Meaning

Aloha!! Hopefully your eager to learn Bahasa Indonesia keeps rising up. In English, the letter W is pronounced as “double U”. But, the pronouncation is much differrent in Bahasa Indonesia that the letter W sounds ” Wae”. You should know the pronunciation first before we begin our lesson today in this article. Yeah, we will […]