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Lesson 4 of 10
Counting to ten in Indonesian
One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Indonesian words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Indonesian phrases in this lesson
- Satusah-TOO
- One
- Duadoo-AH
- Two
- TigaTEE-gah
- Three
- Empatem-PAHT
- Four
- LimaLEE-mah
- Five
- Enameh-NAHM
- Six
- TujuhTOO-jooh
- Seven
- Delapandeh-LAH-pahn
- Eight
- Sembilansem-BEE-lahn
- Nine
- Sepuluhseh-POO-looh
- Ten
Straightforward. There is no plural form in Indonesian, so satu kucing (one cat) and lima kucing (five cats) work the same way. Satu is used constantly.
Rhymes with the English "two". Indonesian numbers are refreshingly regular and easy to learn, one of the language's biggest gifts.
Se- is the prefix for one of something. Sepuluh is one-ten, eleven is sebelas, twenty is dua puluh (two tens). The system stays logical all the way up.