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INTRODUCTION
Gina: Hi everyone, Gina here, and welcome back to IndonesianPod101.com. This is Basic Bootcamp, Lesson 4 - Counting from 1-100 in Indonesian. This is the fourth lesson in a five-part series that will help you ease your way into Indonesian.
Fira: Halo. I’m Fira. In this lesson, you’ll learn one of the essentials in Indonesian... numbers! With us, you’ll learn how to count up to the number 100, and understand the numerical system in Indonesian.
Gina: We will introduce the numbers, and go through their pronunciations, and give you examples of where and how you can actually use these numbers.
Fira: The conversation takes place at a gym.
Gina: One of the speakers will be doing push-ups and counting them, and the other speaker is going to help her.
Fira: Okay, let’s listen to the conversation.
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Gina: Wow, it seems like Budi is working out so hard. He made it up to number 20 so quickly.
Fira: (laughs) He is! And we can also learn about the numbers up to 20 quickly!
Gina: I know there are some interesting stories about each number in Indonesian. Could you tell us a little bit about those?
Fira: Sure. First, let’s talk about the number 2. It’s an important number for the Balinese, because it represents ‘raw bhineda.’
Gina: And that means ‘two complementary opposites,’ right?
Fira: That’s right. This states that everything can be divided into two. Such as good and evil, men and women, light and darkness, and black and white.
Gina: What about the number 4?
Fira: In many Indonesian societies, the number 4 refers to the powerful 4 cardinal directions. And also the number 5 can be connected with the Pancasila.
Gina: Which is the predominant governmental philosophy for the Indonesian nation-state.
Fira: And lastly, the number 9 is an important one in Java.
Gina: That’s because it’s considered to be a magic number in the region. It outlines the 4 cardinal directions, the 4 intermediate directions, and 1 center. So it’s like 4 plus 4 plus 1.
Fira: That’s right.
Gina: How interesting! Okay, now let’s move on to the vocab.
KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
Gina: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Fira: We’ve just reviewed the numbers from 1 to 10 in Indonesian.
Gina: Now let’s learn how to make these cardinal numbers into ordinal numbers.
Fira: It’s very simple. You just need to put the word ‘ke’ in front of them.
Gina: So if you want to say ‘Second’, you can say..
Fira: ‘Kedua’. ‘Ke - Dua.’ ‘Dua’ is the word meaning the number two, and here, you can simply add the word ‘Ke’ to make it into ‘Second.’
Gina: That’s so simple! How would you say ‘seventh’ in Indonesian?
Fira: The word ‘Tujuh’ means “Seven.” So for “seventh”, you say ‘Ke-Tujuh’.
Gina: But there’s one exception right?
Fira: That’s right. For the number 1, which is ‘Satu’ in Indonesian, you cannot use this formula. Instead of adding the prefix ‘ke’, you need to say ‘Pertama’ to mean ‘first.’
Gina: And that’s the only exception. Other than that, just add the prefix ‘Ke’ to cardinal numbers to make them into ordinal numbers. Okay, now let’s move on to the grammar.

Lesson focus

Gina: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to count numbers from 11 to 100. Hmm, it sounds like there is a lot to memorize!
Fira: Actually, it’s not too bad. In Indonesian, it’s very easy to form numbers. Let’s take a look at them one by one.
Gina: First, let’s look at the numbers between 11 and 19. Fira, how do you say 11 in Indonesian?
Fira: "Sebelas." [Se-be-las.] "Sebelas." ‘Se’ is the prefix meaning ‘One.’
Gina: What about the suffix?
Fira: The suffix ‘belas’ works like the word ‘Teen’ in English. For example, when you say ‘fourteen’, you put the word ‘four’ first, then put the word ‘teen’ right? The suffix ‘belas’ works like the English word ‘teen.’
Gina: So literally it means ‘one teen.’ Then what about twelve?
Fira: "Duabelas." [Dua-be-las.] "Duabelas." You can see the same suffix, ‘belas.’ Here, I used the word Dua meaning ‘two.’
Gina: So it literally means ‘two teen.’
Fira: It seems like now you can see the pattern. You can simply say the word meaning 2 to 9, then add the suffix ‘Belas’ to make the numbers between 11 and 19.
Gina: Ok, could you give the rest of them one by one?
Fira: Sure. 13 is ‘Tigabelas.’
Gina: And what’s 14?
Fira: The word ‘empat’ means ‘four’ in Indonesian. So that’s “Empatbelas”
Gina: Okay, what about the numbers between 15 to 19?
Fira: Enambelas means 15. And enambelas means 16. In the same way, you can say tujuhbelas, delapanbelas, and semibilanbelas for the numbers 17 to 19.
Gina: Great. Alright, now what about number 20? Let me guess...is it ‘belas belas’?
Fira: No. It’s actually ‘Dua puluh.’
Gina: And that sounds similar to the Indonesian word meaning ‘10’ right?
Fira: That’s right. The number ten, or ‘Sepuluh’ literally means ‘one ten’ . ‘Se’ is the prefix meaning ‘one’ and ‘puluh’ means ‘ten.’ You can make the word 20 in the same way. You just need to replace the word ‘Se’ with the word ‘dua’ meaning ‘two’.
Gina: Okay, what about “30”?
Fira: Tiga is the word ‘three’, so you can say ‘Tiga puluh’ to say ‘30’.
Gina: As long as you remember the numbers from 1 to 10, you should have no problem forming numbers in Indonesian. So Fira, what about 99?
Fira: It’s very simple. You just need to make the number 90 first, then say 9 after that. So the answer is Sembilan puluh Sembilan.
Gina: Wow, Indonesian numbers are very simple to remember. I love that.
Fira: But before we finish the lesson, let’s remember one more word.
Gina: And what’s that?
Fira: Seratus.
Gina: Ah yes, it means ‘one hundred’ and we’re going to use this number to make some even higher numbers like 999, in the next lesson.
Fira: So make sure you remember this number before we meet in the next lesson again!

Outro

Gina: Okay, that’s it for this lesson. Thank you for listening everyone and see you next time!
Fira: Sampai jumpa!

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