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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 Kesehatan which means Health.

Here is the conversation entitled “Ada Masker?” which means “Any Mask?”. This dialog is between Kevin and a pharmacist in a pharmacy.Kevin wants to buy a mask. Let’s read 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 an expression “Ada masker?” (2X) which means “Any mask?” in the dialog context betweenKevin and the pharmacist, there is the word ada (2X) which means any, which is used to ask the availability of medicine,vitamin or mask to be bought. Such an expression is used when we want to buy something.

Other examples

Let’s listen to the other examples to use the word ada (2X) which means any to ask the availability of an object that we want to buy.

Ada parasetamol? (2X) which means Any paracetamol? 

Ada, Pak! (2X) which means Yes, Sir!   

Ada termometer? (2X) which means Any thermometer?

Tidak ada, Pak (2X) which means No, Sir

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.