Learn about the prepositions ke and di
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Jason:Hi everyone. Jason here! Welcome back to IndonesianPod101.com. This is Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 19 - Traveling Around Indonesia. |
| Fira:Hello everyone! I'm Fira |
| Jason:In this lesson, we’re going to learn about prepositions in Indonesian. |
| Fira:The conversation takes place at a hotel lobby, and it’s between Edi and his friend Tuti. They speak the formal Indonesian. |
| Jason:Okay, let’s listen to the conversation. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Jason:Indonesia is an extremely large country. It has many islands and ethnic groups. |
| Fira:Right. It has about 17,000 islands of various sizes. |
| Jason:That’s a LOT. |
| Fira:And Jason, do you know how many languages are spoken in Indonesia? |
| Jason:I know the answer actually. It should be more than 700 different languages, right? |
| Fira:That’s right. And it’s not dialects. It’s languages. |
| Jason:And about the ethnic groups, I know that there are at least four hundred different ethnic groups. |
| Fira:And the Toraja was one of them. They live in the inland regions of the island of Sulawesi, which was formerly called the Celebes. |
| Jason:And I read that they had a special funeral ceremony with the water buffalo. |
| Fira:Right. The toraja consider water buffaloes extremely valuable, so usually during a funeral, hundreds of water buffalo are sacrificed and the meat divided to be shared within the entire community. |
| Jason:Right. And people consider death as sleeping, so they usually place the body inside a remote cave, in a sitting position. |
| Fira:If you visit there, you might be able to see a big funeral ceremony too. |
| Jason:It sounds interesting! Okay, now let’s check the vocab. |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Jason:Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Fira:The first word is pergi. |
| Jason:It means ‘to go.’ Fira, I thought we already learned how to say ‘to go’ in Indonesian? |
| Fira:Well, kind of. Do you remember the phrase mau kemana? |
| Jason:Yep, it means ‘where are you going?’. |
| Fira:But it didn’t actually have the verb meaning ‘to go’. We only had mau meaning ‘to want’. |
| Jason:Right. So now it’s time to learn the verb. |
| Fira:You can use this verb when you want to highlight that someone is physically going somewhere. |
| Jason:So basically, you should have a destination when you use this word. |
| Fira:In the dialogue, we have this phrase – Mau pergi ke mana? which means ‘Where do you want to go?’ |
| Jason:To answer this question, you should name the destination. |
| Fira:And here’s one more thing. It’s fine to use this verb to name any destination. But when you talk about “going home”, you should use a different verb. |
| Jason:Which one? |
| Fira:It’s pulang. (slow) pulang. It actually means ‘going home’, and you can use it on its own. |
| Jason:That’s handy! Ok, now let’s check the grammar point. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Jason:In this lesson, we’re going to learn prepositions in Indonesian. |
| Fira:The first one is ‘ke’ meaning ‘to’ or ‘towards’. |
| Jason:You can use this one to indicate where you’re going to. |
| Fira:And in the dialogue, we used it as ‘kemana’. (slow) kemana. The word kemana is usually used in ‘Mau Kemana’. |
| Jason:which means ‘where do you want to go?’ Literally, ke means ‘to’ and mana means ‘where’. So All together, it means ‘to where’. |
| Fira:Let’s look at some examples. |
| Jason:How do you say ‘to Indonesia’, Fira? |
| Fira:Ke In-do-ne-si-a. Ke In-do-ne-si-a. |
| Jason:Then how do we say ‘to the Keraton’? |
| Fira:Ke Keraton. (slow) Ke Ke-ra-ton. |
| Jason:Let’s have some more examples with popular place names. How do you say ‘to the bank’? |
| Fira:Ke bank. (slow) Ke bank. |
| Jason:And ‘to the Hotel’ is? |
| Fira:Ke hotel. (slow) Ke ho-tel. |
| Jason:It’s very simple. Okay, now let’s move to the next proposition. What’s the next one, Fira? |
| Fira:It’s di. (slow) Di |
| Jason:It means ‘in’ or ‘at’. Now, let’s check some examples. How do you say ‘in Indonesia’? |
| Fira:It’s simple. ‘To Indonesia’ was ‘ke Indonesia’, right? ‘in Indonesia’ is simply “di Indonesia”. (slow) Di In-do-ne-si-a. |
| Jason:What about ‘at the bank’? |
| Fira:Di bank. (slow) Di bank. |
| Jason:So just like in English, you can use the preposition ke when you’re heading to some place. Other than that, you can use di to refer to places in Indonesian. |
Outro |
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| Jason:Okay. That’s it for this lesson. |
| Fira:Thank you for listening everyone. |
| Jason:See you next time! |
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