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# indonesian

«indonesian» in Mova's school dictionary: **From or about Indonesia, a large country in Southeast…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Indonesian); noun (an Indonesian, Indonesians; Indonesian, the language — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) From or about Indonesia, a large country in Southeast Asia made of thousands of islands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#m1)

2) A person from Indonesia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#m2)

3) Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), the national language of Indonesia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it comes with islands, volcanoes, rainforests, orangutans and Komodo dragons. In languages it is the official language used by many millions. Phrases: Indonesian food, the Indonesian islands, speak Indonesian.

### examples

- Indonesian food often has rice, peanut sauce and spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x1)
- My friend's mum is Indonesian and comes from Bali. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x2)
- The Indonesian islands include Java, Sumatra and Borneo's southern part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x3)
- Komodo dragons live on a few Indonesian islands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x4)
- She is learning to say hello in Indonesian: selamat pagi means good morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x5)
- Many Indonesian volcanoes are still active. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/#x6)

### note

Always written with a capital I in normal writing. The language is often called Bahasa Indonesia (bahasa means language). Indonesia has more islands than most people guess: more than 17,000.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indonesian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indonesian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.