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F INDONESIAN NUMBERS MADE EASY E
Also see https://seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/Themes/Numbers
https://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/lm_indonesia/inNumbers.html

To tell people your age, those of you who are older than twenty will need some information that the book does not provide in Topic One (see p. 18). It is provided in Topic Two, on p. 39, but this summary will help as well:

Basic Numbers "TEENS" = BELAS "TENS" = PULUH "HUNDREDS" = RATUS "THOUSANDS" = RIBU
1 = satu

11 = sebelas

10 = sepuluh

100 = seratus 1000 = seribu
2 = dua

12 = dua belas

20 = dua puluh 200 = dua ratus 2000 = dua ribu
3 = tiga

13 = tiga belas

30 = tiga puluh 300 = tiga ratus 3000 = tiga ribu
4 = empat

14 = empat belas

40 = empat puluh 400 = empat ratus 4000 = empat ribu
5 = lima

15 = lima belas

50 = lima puluh 500 = lima ratus 5000 = lima ribu
6 = enam 16 = enam belas 60 = enam puluh 600 = enam ratus 6000 = enam ribu
7 = tujuh 17 = tujuh belas 70 = tujuh puluh 700 = tujuh ratus 7000 = tujuh ribu
8 = delapan 18 = delapan belas 80 = delapan puluh 800 = delapan ratus 8000 = delapan ribu
9 = sembilan 19 = sembilan belas 90 = sembilan puluh 900 = sembilan ratus 9000 = sembilan ribu

Notice that "satu" changes to "se-" when forming the numbers 10, 11, 100, 100, but the other numbers do not change.

To make more complex numbers, like twenty-five, just add the word for five ("lima") to the word for twenty ("dua puluh") to form "dua puluh lima".

So, if your age is: nineteen, the Indonesian form is SEMBILAN BELAS

twenty, DUA PULUH

twenty one, DUA PULUH SATU

twenty two, DUA PULUH DUA

thirty three, TIGA PULUH TIGA

forty one, EMPAT PULUH SATU

fifty nine,    LIMA PULUH SEMBILAN

a hundred and three,  SERATUS TIGA

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