Learn Simple Malay - Constructing Simple Sentences
Using of Conversational Malay Language
In today context, travelling can be pretty easy and cheap. People are travelling more often today. However travelling to foreign places can be challenging as we might be facing a new foreign language. Mastering a foreign language can be very tough as it usually takes years for us to learn a new language. But understanding a language can be pretty simple.
If you are travelling to Malaysia,Singapore,Indonesia or Brunei, you might want to equip yourself with certain understanding of the lanaguge.
Learning Conversational Malay can be quite simple. It takes one to know the basic and then it is all about memorizing the various words for us to construct the sentence. Before we start a sentence construction in Malay, let us understand three important terms first.
Three Important terms
Noun: A word used as the name of anything. Noun can be divided into: COMMON, PRONOUN*, ABSTRACT, and COLLECTIVE.
Pronoun: A Word used for or instead of a noun; it shows the person or thing without actually giving the name of the person or thing. Types of pronoun; PERSON, IMPROPER, INTERROGATIVE, NOMINATIVE, and DEMOSTRATIVE pronoun.
Verb: A word which asserts something about a person or thing. The types of verb are TRANSITIVE and INTRANSITIVE. The verb is the most important word in a sentence.
After learning these three terms, lets us take a look at a few words listed below.
Noun
| Pronoun
| Verb
|
---|---|---|
kopi(coffee)
| Saya (I)
| Duduk(Sit)
|
sekolah(school)
| Kita(we)
| tidur(Sleep)
|
Itali(Italy)
| awak(you)
| minum(Drinks)
|
dia(He or she)
| jalan(walks)
| |
mereka(They, them)
| Tinggal (lives)
| |
datang (come)
|
Constructing Sentences
After understanding those three terms, it is time for us to put them together. This will allow us to construct a few sentences as of below.
Sentence in Bahasa
| Sentence in English
|
---|---|
Katabenda + Katakerja
| Noun + Verb
|
Saya Duduk
| I Sit
|
Dia tidur
| He Sleep
|
Katabenda + Katakerja + Katabenda
| Noun + Verb + Noun
|
Dia minum kopi
| He drinks coffee
|
Dia jalan ke sekolah
| She walks to school
|
Mereka datang dari Itali
| They come from Italy
|
Learning a few more words
With this, we need to know more malay words such that we will be able to form more sentences. Now go ahead to construct your own sentences with the extra words given below.
Noun
| Verb
|
---|---|
budak lelaki (Boy)
| makan(eat)
|
bandar(city)
| lari(run)
|
pisang(Banana)
| diri(stand)
|
bapa(Father)
| pergi(go)
|
ibu(Mother)
| balik(return)
|
Abang(Brother)
| pulang(going back)
|
Kakak (sister)
| |
datuk (grandfather)
| |
nenek(Grandmother)
|
Are you confident to travel now?
This sum up with constructing simple conversational sentence. However, with this, it wont allows us to be able to converse with the local using Malay language. We still have to bring dictionary along with us. And in today context, it will be smart phone.