LESSON NOTES

Survival Phrases S1 #5
Parting Greetings in Indonesian

CONTENTS
2 Indonesian
2 English
2 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar
4 Cultural Insight

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 INDONESIAN

1. Selamat tinggal.

2. Selamat jalan.

3. Da-da.

4. Sampai ketemu.

5. Sampai jumpa.

6. Sampai nanti.

ENGLISH

1. Goodbye (to person staying)

2. Goodbye (to person leaving)

3. Bye! [Usually accompanied by waving.]

4. Until we happen to meet.

5. Until we meet.

6. Until later.

VOCABULARY

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 Sampai ketemu. "Until we happen to meet."

Sampai jumpa. "Until we meet."

"Goodbye (to person

Selamat tinggal. staying)" expression

"Goodbye (to person

Selamat jalan. leaving)"

Sampai nanti. "Until later."

Bye! [Usually accompanied

Da-da. by waving.]

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Sampai ketemu. Sampai jumpa.

"Until we happen to meet." "Until we meet."

Selamat tinggal. Selamat jalan.

"Goodbye." "Goodbye."

Sampai nanti. Da-da.

"Until later." "Bye!"

GRAMMAR

Today we'll introduce parting greetings. There are two formal phrases and four informal
phrases in Indonesian. Let's go over the two formal ones first.

Upon parting, if your listener is staying in the area, the expression that is used is Selamat
tinggal, which literally means "happy staying." Let's take a look at the individual words. The
first word Selamat means "happy" or "blessed." This is followed by tinggal, which in
Indonesian is "to stay."

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On the other hand, if your listener is leaving the area, the expression that is used is Selamat
jalan, which literally means "happy going." Let's take a look at the individual words. The first
word Selamat means "happy" or "blessed," as we've said before. This is followed by jalan,
which in Indonesian is "to leave" or "to go."

Lets take a look at the three informal parting expressions.

In Indonesian a more casual way of saying goodbye, like "bye" in English, is Da-da. This
phrase is used among friends and in other casual situations.

If you want to say something like "see you later" in English, there are three ways to do this in
Indonesian.

The first one is Sampai ketemu, which literally means "Until we happen to meet." Let's take a
look at the individual words. The first word Sampai means "until." This is followed by ketemu,
which in Indonesian is "happen to meet."

The second one is Sampai jumpa, which literally means "Until we meet."

Let's take a look at the individual words. The first word Sampai means "until," as we've said
before. This is followed by jumpa, which in Indonesian is "to meet."

The last of these is Sampai nanti, which literally means "Until later." Let's take a look at the
individual words. The first word Sampai means "until," as we've said before. This is followed
by nanti, which in Indonesian is "later."

CULTURAL INSIGHT

Quick Tip #1

The formal versions of "goodbye" come in two forms: selamat tinggal, which one says if the
speaker is leaving but the listener is staying (tinggal "to stay"); and selamat jalan, which one
says if the listener is leaving (jalan "to go, to move"). If both people leave, they say selamat
jalan to each other. Generally though, these expressions are very formal and are typically
used if the speaker and listener do not anticipate meeting again anytime soon.

In cases where both parties will meet soon after the parting, it is more appropriate to use the
more informal greetings that contain sampai "until," e.g. sampai ketemu ("until we happen to

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meet [again]"), sampai jumpa ("until we meet [again]"), and sampai nanti ("until [we meet]
later").

Quick Tip #2

Pronunciation note: In the word sampai "until," the diphthong (i.e. combination of two different
vowels pronounced as a single vowel) spelled [ai] in Indonesian is most often pronounced as
[e] like in bed. This is usually the case for [ai] word-finally; if [ai] occurs in the middle of the
word, this pronunciation change does not occur.

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