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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 “Punya Nomor Ponselnya?” which means“Do You Have His Phone Number?”. This dialog happens when Kevin calls Mela. He asks the phone of number of his workmate. Let’s read to the conversation.

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

In the dialog, you hear a sentence Punya nomor ponsel Pak Indra, tidak? (2X)which means Do you have Mr. Indra’s phone number? In daily speech, a question which ends with tidak (2X) or not and have a high tone in the end is an expression to know if someone has or does something or not. In the dialog context betweenMela and Kevin, Kevin wants to know if Mela has Mr. Indra’s phone number or not by asking Punya nomor ponsel Pak Indra, tidak? (2X) which means Do you have Mr. Indra’s phone number? Another question that you can use is Apakah kamu mempunyai nomor ponsel Pak Indra?      (2X) which means Do you have Mr. Indra’s phone number?

Other examples

Let’s read to the other examples to know if someone has something or not.

- Punya catatan rapat tadi siang, tidak? (2X) which means Do you have minutes of the meeting this afternoon?

- Punya (2X) which means Yes, I do

Other examples:

- Apakah kamu mempunyai catatan rapat tadi siang? (2X) which means Do you have minutes of the meeting this afternoon?

- Tidak punya (2X) which means No, I don’t

In daily speech, the sentence is usually short and relatively incomplete. However, the speakers already know the context. For example, Kamu punya nomor Pak Indra, tidak?  (2X) which means Do you have Mr. Indra’s number?

The word number in the sentence is actually unclear yet. But because the context is known, the speakers usually already understand that what the speaker means is phone number.

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.