mengegas

Indonesian

Etymology

From meng- +‎ gas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [məŋəˈɡas]
• Hyphenation: mêngêgas
• Rhymes: -as

Verb

mêngêgas (passive digas)

1. to gas: to give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it
2. (colloquial, figurative) to speak louder because of anger or upset

Conjugation

Conjugation of gas (meng-, ambitransitive, monosyllabic stem)

root	gas
	active	passive		basic imperative	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
nominative	mengegas	tergas	digas	gas	gaslah
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2	mengegaskan	tergaskan	digaskan	gaskan	gaskanlah
	causative
nominative	mempergas	terpergas	dipergas	pergas	pergaslah
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2	mempergaskan	terperaskan	dipergaskan	pergaskan	pergaskanlah

¹ There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Further reading

• “mengegas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.