Keputusan itu memberikan harapan kepada kami.

In Malay, demonstratives like ini (this) and itu (that) usually come after the noun.

So:

• keputusan itu = that decision
• rumah ini = this house

This is normal Malay word order. English puts that before the noun, but Malay puts itu after it.

Also, in many contexts, itu can feel a bit like the in English, depending on the sentence. So keputusan itu can often be understood as that decision or the decision, depending on context.

Keputusan most commonly means decision, but in some contexts it can also mean result or outcome.

In this sentence, the intended meaning depends on context:

• keputusan = decision if someone made a choice
• keputusan = result/outcome if something was announced or concluded

Malay often allows this kind of flexibility, so learners need to rely on context more than in English.

Memberikan comes from the root beri (to give).

It is built like this:

• beri = give
• memberi = to give
• memberikan = to give / to provide / to bestow

In this sentence, memberikan sounds a bit more formal or complete than just beri.

So:

• Keputusan itu memberikan harapan kepada kami. = more formal, polished
• Keputusan itu memberi harapan kepada kami. = also correct, slightly simpler
• Keputusan itu beri harapan kepada kami. = possible in casual speech, but less standard in careful writing

This is a very common question.

Both can mean to give, but memberikan often sounds a little more formal and can emphasize the thing being given.

In this sentence:

• memberi harapan kepada kami
• memberikan harapan kepada kami

Both are natural and grammatical.

A useful beginner-level way to think about it is:

• memberi = give
• memberikan = give/provide

In real usage, the difference is often small, especially in sentences like this one.

Because harap and harapan are different word types.

• harap is usually a verb or root related to to hope
• harapan is a noun meaning hope

So in this sentence, the thing being given is hope, which is a noun. That is why harapan is used.

Compare:

• Kami berharap. = We hope.
• Kami ada harapan. = We have hope.

Here, memberikan harapan literally means give hope.

Kepada means to when introducing the recipient of an action, especially with people.

So:

• memberikan harapan kepada kami = give hope to us

It marks who receives the hope.

This is very common with verbs of giving, sending, showing, explaining, and so on.

For example:

• Dia memberi hadiah kepada saya. = He/She gave a gift to me.
• Guru menjelaskan perkara itu kepada pelajar. = The teacher explained that matter to the students.

Sometimes pada can appear where English would use to, but in a sentence like this, kepada is the more natural and standard choice because the recipient is a person.

So:

• kepada kami = best choice here

Very roughly:

• kepada is commonly used for to someone
• pada has broader uses, such as at, on, to, depending on context

Learners are usually safest using kepada for a human recipient in sentences like this.

This is an important Malay distinction.

• kami = we/us, excluding the listener
• kita = we/us, including the listener

So kepada kami means to us, but not including you.

If the speaker wanted to include the person being spoken to, they would use kita instead.

Compare:

• Keputusan itu memberikan harapan kepada kami. = The decision gave hope to us, not including you.
• Keputusan itu memberikan harapan kepada kita. = The decision gave hope to all of us, including you.

English does not normally make this distinction, so it is something English speakers need to get used to.

Yes, mostly.

The structure is:

• Keputusan itu = subject
• memberikan = verb
• harapan = object
• kepada kami = recipient phrase

So the pattern is:

Subject + Verb + Object + Recipient

That is quite close to English:

That decision + gave + hope + to us

The main difference an English speaker will notice is the position of itu, which comes after the noun.

Yes. That is completely natural.

Both of these are good:

• Keputusan itu memberi harapan kepada kami.
• Keputusan itu memberikan harapan kepada kami.

The version with memberikan sounds a little more formal or literary, while memberi is slightly simpler and very common.

Yes, in many contexts it can.

Malay does not have articles exactly like English the and a. Because of that, a phrase like keputusan itu may be translated in different ways depending on context:

• that decision
• the decision
• sometimes even that result / the result

The word itu often points to something known, specific, or previously mentioned, which is why it can overlap with English that or sometimes the.

The original sentence is already natural, but in everyday speech people might simplify it a bit.

Possible versions:

• Keputusan itu memberi harapan kepada kami.
• Keputusan itu bagi kami harapan. — more colloquial, less formal
• Keputusan itu buat kami rasa ada harapan. — more conversational, literally something like That decision made us feel there was hope

So the original sentence sounds correct and fairly neutral-to-formal, especially in writing or careful speech.