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WORK FROM HOME

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Voice of Indonesia presents Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is about “Kerja dari Rumah” which means“Work from Home”.

Here is the conversation entitled “Kerja dari Rumah” which means“Work from Home”. This dialog happens when Kevin and Mela are in the office. They are talking about the number of Covid - 19 cases. Let’s read to the conversation.

   

 Kevin

Berapa jumlah kasus Covid-19 hari ini?

 Mela

Tidak tahu. Semoga tidak sebanyak kemarin.

Kevin

Amin

   

After reading to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.

Berapa

(2X) which means

How many

Jumlah

(2X) which means

Number

Kasus

(2X) which means

Cases

hari ini

(2X) which means

Today

tidak tahu

(2X) which means

I don’t know

Semoga

(2X) which means

Hopefully

Tidak

(2X) which means

Not

Sebanyak

(2X) which means

As many as

Banyak

(2X) which means

Many

Kemarin

(2X) which means

Yesterday

Amin

(2X) which means

Amin

Berapa jumlah kasus Covid 19 hari ini?

(2X) which means

How many Covid 19 cases today?

Semoga tidak sebanyak kemarin.

(2X) which means

Hopefully it is not as many as yesterday

Sebesar

(2X) which means

As big as

Ruangan ini sebesar kamar saya.  

(2X) which means

This room is as big as my bedroom

setinggi

(2X) which means

As tall as

Kamu setinggi kakakku.

(2X) which means

You are as tall as my brother

In the dialog, you hear Mela say Tidak sebanyak kemarin (2X) which means As not many as yesterday. In the expression, there is the word sebanyak (2X) which means as many as. It consists of a prefix se- and banyak. The prefix se means satu (2X) which means one and same. It depends on the context.In the dialog context betweenKevin and Mela, the meaning of prefix se – in the word sebanyak is sama (2X) which means same. So, the word sebanyak means ‘sama banyak’ (2X) or in Englishmeans as much. The prefix se- means ‘sama’ (2X) which means same if it is followed by adjective. Theprefix se- means ‘banyak’ (2X) which means many if it is used for comparison. For example, Semoga kasus Covid-19 hari ini tidak sebanyak kemarin (2X) which means Hopefully Covid-19 cases today is not as many as yesterday.

Other examples:

Let’s read to the other examples of using the prefix se- which has the meaning of ‘same’.

- Ruangan ini sebesar kamar saya (2X) which means This room is as big as my bedroom

- Oh, begitu (2X) which means Oh, I see

- Kamu setinggi kakakku (2X) which means You are as tall as my brother

- Oh, begitu (2X) which means Oh, I see

That was “Let’s Speak Indonesian for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language

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