mengatakan

[me·nga·ta·kan]verb

Definitions

1.
to say; to state; to declare
Active voice form: meng- + kata + -kan. Extremely common in news and formal speech for reported speech. E.g. Dia mengatakan bahwa... (He/She said that...). The meng- prefix nasalizes to meng- before k, dropping the k: kata → mengatakan.