Learn the Indonesian numbers of 100 through 100,000
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Gina: Hi everyone, Gina here, and welcome back to IndonesianPod101.com. This is Basic Bootcamp, Lesson 5 - Counting from 100 to 1 million in Indonesian. |
| Fira: Halo. I’m Fira. In this last lesson of the series, you’ll learn how to count numbers up to 1 million in Indonesian. |
| Gina: But don’t be afraid. Indonesian numbers are very easy to learn, so you’ll master all of them quickly. In this lesson, Rob is going to try to bargain with a shopkeeper. |
| Fira: The conversation takes place at a local market. And they will use formal Indonesian. |
| Fira: Let’s listen to the conversation. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Gina: Wow, the numbers are so high – they started with 50,000. Are they selling some expensive items in a local market? |
| Fira: Not at all. That’s the first thing you need to get used to when you’re traveling in Indonesia - the currency. |
| Gina: At the current rate, there are about 11,000 rupiah to one US dollar, and that’s why Rob started with a higher number when he was bartering. So Fira, for bargaining in Indonesia, is there something that our listeners should know? |
| Fira: Suggest something much lower than what you want to really pay. As you can see in the conversation, the sellers will try to make you pay more anyway. |
| Gina: Ok, and after getting the deal, what would you say? |
| Fira: You can say ‘Ya Boleh’ as Rob did in the dialogue. It literally means ‘you may’ and you can use the phrase when you want to finish the bargaining. |
| Gina: Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Gina: Let's have a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson. What’s the first word, Fira? |
| Fira: Seratus. |
| Gina: One hundred. |
| Fira: It has the prefix ‘Se’ meaning ‘one’ and ‘ratus’ meaning ‘a hundred.’ Using the word ‘ratus’, you can simply make the numbers like 200 and 300. |
| Gina: Okay, so how would you say “200” in Indonesian? |
| Fira: Duaratus. Dua means the number ‘two’ in Indonesian, so it means ‘two hundred.’ |
| Gina: Then what about “301”? |
| Fira: It’s simple. You can say ‘Tiga-ratus satu.’ |
| Gina: And what about “1000”? |
| Fira: We’ll go over the higher numbers in the grammar. |
| Gina: Ok, let’s move on to the grammar then! |
Lesson focus |
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| Gina: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to count numbers up to 1 million in Indonesian. |
| Fira: Let’s start with the number “1,000.” In Indonesian, you can say ‘Seribu.’ |
| Gina: It starts with ‘Se’ too. |
| Fira: That’s right. And it also means that you can make different numbers using the suffix ‘Ribu.’ |
| Gina: So, how would you say 2,000? |
| Fira: That’s Dua-ribu. |
| Gina: And three thousand? |
| Fira: That’s Tiga-ribu. The same way we made the other numbers before, you can simply add the numbers to the suffix. |
| Gina: Okay, and what about ten thousand? |
| Fira: It’s simple! The Indonesian word ‘Sepuluh’ means ‘ten’, so you can say ‘Sepuluh Ribu.’ |
| Gina: That literally means ‘ten thousand’, like in English. So listeners, can you guess how to read ‘one hundred thousand’ in Indonesian? The answer is..? |
| Fira: ‘Seratus Ribu.’ Seratus is the word meaning ‘one hundred.’ So it literally means ‘one hundred thousand.’ |
| Gina: Then what about “1 million”? |
| Fira: That’s Satu juta. |
| Gina: And using this word and the other ones that we’ve learned previously, you can make even higher numbers too. |
| Fira: Such as.. 10 million, which is ‘Sepuluh Juta’ in Indonesian. |
| Gina: See, it’s easy! |
Outro |
| Gina: Okay, that’s it for this lesson and this series. We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. Thank you for listening everyone, and we’ll see you in another series. |
| Fira: Sampai jumpa. |
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