“TUMBEN”, “DUNGAREN”, OR “KADINGAREN”

“TUMBEN”, “DUNGAREN”, OR “KADINGAREN”

These may be a belated topic on BBI (Belajar Bahasa Inggris). We, however, often utter in Indonesia especially much more often, right?. Amazingly, A lot of people even English learners still do not know how to say it. It is why this is very important to know how to use it in a daily life conversation. This time, I would happily like to discuss it. It may be helpful for you all. Basically, English sometimes doesn’t have the exact words to replace the meticulous words about what we are looking for either because its differential culture or its language limitation. This word is commonly uttered or used to show when people rarely do such a thing. Let me give you some examples, for instance;
• Tumben kamu cantik
• Tumben kamu rajin
• Tumben kamu sibuk
• Tumben kamu malu
Some of you, surely, often say so. So do not be feel confused anymore! Now you can easily say so into right English. Let’s check it out! If someone says “ kamu cantik” , English exactly says “you are beautiful”, But what if we want to add the word “ tumben” before the phrase or the sentence such as “tumben kamu cantik”. Well, you can absolutely say it by adding “BEING” after the subject and to be, e.g “you are being beautiful” means “tumben kamu cantik”. What about another one? “tumben kamu rajin”, of course, you can do it. It exactly becomes “you are being diligent”. So the pattern is [SUBJECT+ TOBE + BEING + ADJECTIVE]. It is very easy, isn’t it?
The next question is that what about containing a verbal sentence which has an action such as :
• Tumben kamu belajar rajin hari ini
• Tumben kamu datang tepat waktu
• Tumben macak ayu
• Tumben jam 8 wes dipateni lampune / di matikan lampunya hehe
Let’s figure it out! When “tumben” comes to adjective. It refers to “being” . Meanwhile, when it comes to verb. It refers to “WHAT A SURPRISE”. If someone says “ tumben kamu belajar rajin hari ini” , we can say it “ what a surprise you study diligently today. The second example is “tumben kamu datang tepat waktu” will be “what a surprise you come on time”. Now we can draw to the conclusion when forming “tumben” followed by a verbal sentence [What a surprise + SUBJECT + VERB ].You find it easy, right? The answer must be YES! That’s it!
But be careful! If someone says “you are being beautiful today”. Do not feel happy then, because he/she puts “being” in the phrase. It means you usually look so terrible. Hehe.

Hope this will be helpful!