NOTES AND VOCABULARIES :  

INDONESIAN PROVERBS   INDONESIAN PROVERBS   INDONESIAN PROVERBS

   

INDONESIAN PROVERBS   INDONESIAN PROVERBS   INDONESIAN PROVERBS

 

Notes for "Berat sama .....    The meaning of this proverb is "Stick together through thick and thin".
   

        

  Notes for "Masuk
  kandang kambing .....
   The meaning of this proverb is "Wherever we live, we have to respect and adapt ourselves to the culture of local community". A similar English proverb is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

 

  Notes for "Menanti seribu..   This proverb illustrates the act where someone lets go of something he has, expecting to get something better that might never come.

 

  berat      heavy adj.
   

 

  sama      1. together,with  2.similar, identical  adj
     

 

  pikul      carry on the shoulder using a stick to hang things on as in the picture above v.
di ~ = to be carried on the shoulder (passive form).

 

  ringan  light (in weight) adj.
     

 

  jinjing        carry in one's hand v.
    

 

  masuk      enter, go into, get into v.
   

 

  kandang      stall, pen, stable,cage n.
     

 

  kambing      goat n.
    

 

  embik      bleat v. me ~ = to bleat
  

 

  ayam      chicken n.
  ~ jantan = cock 

 

  kokok      ber ~ = 1.crow 2.boast
 

 

  nanti      1.wait   2. later.
  me ~ = wait v.

 

  seribu      thousand
      

 

  burung      bird n.
    

 

  udara      air n.
   

 

  di      in, on, at, into 
     

 

  satu      one 
     

 

  tangan     hand n.  
     

 

  lepas      release, free, let go v.
  di ~ kan = to be let go, to be released (passive form)