Kami akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini.

Malay has two different words for we:

• kami = we, but not including the person being spoken to
• kita = we, including the person being spoken to

So Kami akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini means the speaker and some other people will go camping, but the listener is not part of the group.

If the listener is included, you would say:

• Kita akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini.

Akan is a future marker. It often corresponds to will or going to in English.

So:

• Kami berkhemah = We camp / We are camping / We camped depending on context
• Kami akan berkhemah = We will camp / We are going to camp

Malay does not mark tense the same way English does, so words like akan help show future time more clearly.

No. Malay often relies on context or time expressions.

Because this sentence already has hujung minggu ini (this weekend), many speakers would still understand the future meaning even without akan:

• Kami berkhemah hujung minggu ini.

That can still mean We’re camping this weekend.

Using akan just makes the future meaning more explicit and slightly more formal or careful.

Berkhemah means to camp.

It is built from:

• khemah = tent
• ber- = a common prefix that often means to have, to use, or to do/be engaged in

So berkhemah is the verb to camp, literally something like to be in a tent/camping situation.

You should learn berkhemah as a whole word meaning camp.

Because khemah by itself is usually a noun: tent.

To express the action to camp, Malay uses the verb form berkhemah.

Compare:

• khemah = tent
• berkhemah = to camp

So in this sentence, a verb is needed, which is why berkhemah is used.

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

So:

• hujung minggu ini = this weekend
• rumah ini = this house
• buku itu = that book

This is a very common word-order difference from English.

Hujung minggu means weekend.

• hujung = end
• minggu = week

So literally it is the end of the week.

Adding ini gives:

• hujung minggu ini = this weekend

It functions as a time expression in the sentence.

Malay often does not need a preposition before time expressions when the meaning is already clear.

So:

• Kami akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini. = We will go camping this weekend.

You can also say:

• Kami akan berkhemah pada hujung minggu ini.

Here, pada is a time preposition roughly like on/at, but it is often omitted in everyday Malay when talking about time.

Yes. The time expression can be moved, especially for emphasis.

For example:

• Kami akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini.
• Hujung minggu ini, kami akan berkhemah.

Both are natural. The second version emphasizes this weekend a little more, like This weekend, we’ll go camping.

It is standard and natural Malay.

• kami is standard
• akan is standard and clear
• berkhemah is the normal verb for camp
• hujung minggu ini is a normal way to say this weekend

In casual speech, people might also say something slightly more conversational, depending on region and context, but this sentence is perfectly good standard Malay.

Yes. That is also correct.

• Kami akan berkhemah hujung minggu ini. = We will camp this weekend.
• Kami akan pergi berkhemah hujung minggu ini. = We will go camping this weekend.

Adding pergi makes it closer to the English expression go camping, but it is not necessary. Berkhemah alone already conveys the idea clearly.

Yes. It is written as one word: berkhemah.

This is because the prefix ber- attaches directly to the base word khemah. In standard spelling, prefixes like this are normally written together with the root.