kebetulan
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay kebetulan. Equal to betul + ke- -an.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kebetulan (first-person possessive kebetulanku, second-person possessive kebetulanmu, third-person possessive kebetulannya)
- accidental: anything happening accidentally.
Adverb edit
kebetulan
- accidentally: in an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly; unintentionally.
Further reading edit
- “kebetulan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
West Makian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
kebetulan
- accidentally
- it so happened that
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics