Guru kaget lihat hasil kue strawberry murid terakhir
A2 Indonesian listening practice · Indonesian · Curated for beginners
What does “ngawur” mean in Indonesian?
A teacher sets a simple task, bake a strawberry cake, and the results go off the rails: «makin lama kuenya malah makin ngawur» (“the longer it went, the more haphazard the cakes got”). Ngawur means “haphazard, all over the place, nonsensical.”
You can do something ngawur (any old way, carelessly) or talk ngawur (spout nonsense). The punchline says it all when the teacher gapes at the last cake: “itu strawberry apa Pokemon sih?” (“is that a strawberry or a Pokémon?”). A handy, very Indonesian word for anything that’s a glorious mess.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸In Indonesian comedy and school-skit videos.
- ▸Calling out work done carelessly or “any old way.”
- ▸For talking nonsense: “jangan ngawur!” (“don’t talk rubbish!”).
- ▸In Indonesian banter about a plan gone sideways.