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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 still about Sakit which means Sick. 

Here is the conversation entitled “Berapa umur Anda?” which means “How old are you?”. This dialog is between Kevin and a clinic staff. The registration staff asks the patient’s age. Let’s read to the conversation.

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

In the dialog, you listen to a question “Berapa umur Anda?” (2X) which means “How old are you?”. In the question, there is a question word berapa (2X) which means how many?, which is used to ask size, value, price, unit, time, number and age. For example, Berapa umur Anda?  (2X) or Berapa usia Anda? (2X) which means How old are you? The words umur (2X) and usia (2X) which mean age have the same meaning.

Other examples

Let’s read to the other examples to ask someone’s age.

Berapa usia Anda? (2X) which means How old are you?

Dua puluh lima tahun (2X) which means Twenty five years old

Usia Anda berapa? (2X) which means How old are you?

Usia saya dua puluh lima tahun (2X) which means Twenty five years old

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.