Since my goal is to be able to chat in Indonesian with friends, these are very common:
dari = dr
uda/sdh = sudah
yg = yang
ga/gk/gak = tidak/nggak
utk = untuk
bkn = bukan
Tokopedia can be said the green one due to their logo so it’s ijo (hijau), which the “H” is dropped and the “au” is simplified to “o,” resulting in Ijo.
my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!
as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.
Checked it out and the catalogue is great for Indonesian and German. Not much for Japanese and for Korean it seems to be all in the category of spiritual at the moment.
People can still understand you even if you don’t know this.
Why I’m learning this now
I started Indonesian with conversations and didn’t want to care too much about rules and grammar. Up until now, I’ve randomly add me- when I feel like it 🤣 truth is, people will still understand.
I feel like I’ve been stuck in the same level for some time, so trying to pick up these rules bit by bit.
How is it used
Used for active verbs, indicating an action performed by a subject.
Prefix: root word starts with (red means the letter is dropped)
me + m: b, f, p
me + n: d, j, c, t
me + ng: vowels, g, h, k
me + ny: s
me: everything else
Examples
B: beli (buy) – membeli
F: fokus (focus) – memfokuskan (make notes on the -kan affix in the future)
P: pakai (use) – memakai (note: ‘p’ dropped)
D: dengar (hear) – mendengar
J: jual (sell) – menjual
C: cuci (wash) – mencuci
T: tulis (write) – menulis (note: ’t’ dropped)
A: ambil (take) – mengambil
G: ganti (change) – mengganti
H: hafal (memorize) – menghafal (note: more academic word than mengingat)
