"Tini mengandung."
Translation:Tini is pregnant.
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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.
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.)
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! :-)
is this a more 'polite' way to say it? I would have said "Tini hamil."
It may be like 'pregnant' and 'expecting' in english. A polite euphemism.
Tini contains the baby. Cut out the baby and people still understand we're talking about babies... Indonesian way of speaking most probably
Nobody uses mengandung for pregnant. Hamil is the only way I've heard people talk about being pregnant Tini mengandung.......... people would ask Tini contains what? Probably last nights dinner if she has not been to the toilet.
Mengandung is a correct commonly used word for pregnant in Bahasa Indonesia, and imho more polite than hamil.
You also can use "berbadan dua" literally mean "have two bodies".
She is pregnant = dia hamil/mengandung/berbadan dua.
In some locality, "bunting" is also used, but in other locality considered rude. So I think it's better not to use it.
I checked the Cambridge Indonesian-English dictionary, and they do list one of the defintions of "mengandung" as "conceive [verb] (medical) (of a woman) ; to become pregnant." But "hamil" is the primary word meaning "pregnant" or "expectant." I wonder why Duo chose to teach us "mengandung" instead.
