Meja Kerja Berantakan

By Speak Indo, original reading practice from the Speak Indo course.

A Messy Desk. Tidying a desk and finding everything that had gone missing on it.

The dialogue, line by line

1. Meja kamu berantakan sekali.
   Your desk is really messy.
2. Iya, saya belum sempat rapikan.
   I know, I have not had time to tidy it.
3. Kertas ini masih dipakai?
   Is this paper still needed?
4. Yang atas iya, yang bawah buang saja.
   The top ones yes, throw the bottom ones away.
5. Pensil dan bolpoin taruh di kotak ini.
   Put the pencils and pens in this box.
6. Terima kasih. Handphone saya di mana, ya?
   Thank you. Where is my phone?
7. Di bawah kertas, dekat komputer.
   Under the papers, near the computer.
8. Untung ketemu. Saya cari dari tadi.
   Lucky it turned up. I have been looking for it.
9. Ini undangan apa? Sudah lama di sini.
   What is this invitation? It has been here a while.
10. Undangan pernikahan bulan lalu. Sudah lewat.
    A wedding invitation from last month. It has passed.
11. Gambar ini bagus. Punya siapa?
    This drawing is nice. Whose is it?
12. Anak saya yang buat.
    My child made it.
13. Tali ini untuk apa?
    What is this string for?
14. Untuk ikat kotak. Kursi saya juga goyang, lihat.
    For tying the box. My chair wobbles too, look.
15. Nanti saya bantu perbaiki.
    I will help you fix it later.

Vocabulary in this dialogue

• meja, table
• kamu, you (informal)
• saya, I
• belum, not yet
• kertas, paper
• ini, this
• yang, which / who / that (relativizer)
• atas, up
• bawah, down
• pensil, pencil
• dan, and
• bolpoin, pen (ballpoint)