Indonesian Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Indonesian Prepositions which is also called Bahasa Indonesia, check our courses about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Indonesian grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Indonesian. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Indonesian Prepositions

Learning the Indonesian Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Indonesian language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Indonesian.

Indonesian prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

English Prepositions	Indonesian Prepositions
Prepositions	Preposisi
inside the house	dalam rumah
outside the car	di luar mobil
with me	dengan saya
without him	tanpa dia
under the table	di bawah meja
after tomorrow	setelah besok
before sunset	sebelum matahari terbenam
but I'm busy	tapi aku sibuk

Notice the structure of the Prepositions in Indonesian.

List of Prepositions in Indonesian

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Indonesian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Indonesian vocabulary.

English Prepositions	Indonesian Prepositions
about	tentang
above	atas
across	seluruh
after	setelah
against	terhadap
among	antara
around	sekitar
as	sebagai
at	di
before	sebelum
behind	di belakang
below	di bawah
beneath	di bawah
beside	di samping
between	antara
beyond	luar
but	tapi
by	oleh
despite	meskipun
down	ke bawah
during	selama
except	kecuali
for	untuk
from	dari
in	di
inside	dalam
into	ke
near	dekat
next	berikutnya
of	dari
on	pada
opposite	seberang
out	ke luar
outside	di luar
over	atas
per	per
plus	plus
round	bulat
since	sejak
than	dari
through	melalui
till	sampai
to	untuk
toward	terhadap
under	bawah
unlike	tidak seperti
until	sampai
up	ke atas
via	melalui
with	dengan
within	dalam
without	tanpa

two words	dua kata
according to	menurut
because of	karena
close to	dekat
due to	disebabkan oleh
except for	kecuali
far from	jauh dari
inside of	dalam
instead of	daripada
near to	dekat
next to	sebelah
outside of	di luar
prior to	sebelum

three words	tiga kata
as far as	sejauh
as well as	maupun
in addition to	sebagai tambahan pada
in front of	di depan
in spite of	meskipun
on behalf of	atas nama
on top of	di puncak

demonstratives	demonstratif preposisi
this	ini
that	itu
these	ini
those	itu

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