Word
Doktor melakukan operasi di hospital.
Meaning
The doctor performs an operation at the hospital.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Doktor melakukan operasi di hospital.
di
at
hospital
the hospital
doktor
the doctor
melakukan
to do
Questions & Answers about Doktor melakukan operasi di hospital.
Why is the word order Doktor melakukan operasi di hospital and not something closer to English?
Malay word order here is very similar to basic English word order:
- Doktor = subject
- melakukan = verb
- operasi = object
- di hospital = place phrase
So the pattern is:
Subject + Verb + Object + Place
That is one reason this sentence feels quite straightforward for English speakers. Malay usually does not need extra words like the or is doing in a simple sentence like this.
Why is there no word for the or a in doktor, operasi, or hospital?
Malay does not normally use articles like a/an and the the way English does.
So:
- doktor can mean a doctor, the doctor, or just doctor
- hospital can mean a hospital or the hospital
- operasi can mean an operation or the operation
Which meaning is intended usually comes from context.
If Malay speakers want to be more specific, they can add other words, but in many ordinary sentences they simply leave articles out.
What does melakukan mean, and why not just use buat?