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bakalan

adv

LanguageIndonesian (Indonesia)

Meaning
  1. will
  2. Used to indicate that something is going to happen in the future. It is a very common informal marker for the future tense.
Examples

Nanti malam bakalan hujan.

It will rain tonight.

Part of speechadv

Usage noteThis is an informal alternative to the formal future marker akan.

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bakalan in other languages

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.