bersekolah
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixation of sekolah + ber-.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /bərsəˈkolah/ [bər.səˈko.lah]
- Rhymes: -olah
- Syllabification: ber‧se‧ko‧lah
Verb
bersekolah (active bersekolah, imperative sekolah, emphatic-jussive sekolahlah)
- to school (to educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school))
- to be educated
- Synonym: berpelajaran
- (colloquial) to learn
- Synonyms: belajar, berguru
Further reading
- “bersekolah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016