"Tini mengandung."

Translation: Tini is pregnant.

[tsuj1g1r1]

Contains = pregnant. Linguistic orgasm!

[Keith_Price]

My wife is Indonesian and she says nobody uses mengandung for pregnant. Hamil is the only way I've heard people talk about being pregnant.

[Tupakyol]

In turkish its also hamile, I guess thats another loan word from arabic then

[DavidHarri227108]

Yes, this comes from Arabic. Hamil (حامل) literally means "carrying". But you use the masculine form of the present participle to signal that you mean "pregnant". (Otherwise you would use the feminine form for a woman, of course.)

[DavidHarri227108]

The feminine form is "hamila" (حاملة) in case anyone is curious. This is irrelevant for Indonesian language learning, however. I just thought I'd mention it for anyone who may be interested. In addition to those two forms there are two dual forms, i.e. one for masculine and one for feminine, and also two plural forms, one for masculine and one for feminine. Should be glad you're learning Indonesian! :-)

[alex.sunch]

I think, Andi is involved somehow :)

[DavidHarri227108]

:-)

[batguano]

is this a more 'polite' way to say it? I would have said "Tini hamil."

[DRD14883]

It didn't accept 'Tini has got a bun in the oven'

[NeilRankin1]

Doesn't recognise contractions (no pun intended)? ie "Tini's pregnant"

[evebergin1]

why is mengandung pregnant AND contains?

[AbdullahAAK]

Tini contains the baby. Cut out the baby and people still understand we're talking about babies... Indonesian way of speaking most probably

[MichaelJes773403]

It may be like 'pregnant' and 'expecting' in english. A polite euphemism.

[TonyBerjaya]

So sudden, who is the father of the baby?

[RyanJustin2]

andi

[AVAX3M]

Are you sure it's not Sri?

[4kir4ch4n]

sri is woman :')

[Tupakyol]

Hahaha awesome

[DebbydeHaa]

I know pregnant as
" bunting"

[FadhilaMukarrama]

It should be for animals

[EJNRr1]

It all started when Tini visited Dimas' house a few lessons ago.

[Chileangod]

Here i was thinking Tini was a guy.