Kelebaran kabinet itu sesuai.

Here, kelebaran means width.

It is built from the root lebar (wide) plus the circumfix ke-...-an:

• lebar = wide
• kelebaran = width / broadness

So this form turns an adjective into an abstract noun, much like wide becoming width in English.

Because lebar usually works as an adjective meaning wide, while kelebaran names the quality itself: width.

Compare:

• Kabinet itu lebar. = The cabinet is wide.
• Kelebaran kabinet itu sesuai. = The cabinet’s width is suitable.

So the sentence is not directly saying the cabinet is wide; it is saying that its width is appropriate.

This is a very common Malay pattern.

Malay usually expresses possession as:

• thing possessed + possessor

So:

• kelebaran kabinet itu literally = width cabinet that
• natural English = the width of that cabinet

This is the same pattern as:

• rumah saya = my house
• warna kereta itu = the color of that car

Itu literally means that, but it also often helps mark something as specific or already known in context.

So kabinet itu can often be understood as:

• that cabinet
• or, depending on context, the cabinet

Malay does not have articles exactly like the and a, so words like itu often help do some of that job.

Because Malay often leaves out the present-tense copula.

In English, you need is:

• The width of that cabinet is suitable.

In Malay, adjective predicates often appear without any equivalent of is:

• Kelebaran kabinet itu sesuai.

This is completely normal Malay sentence structure.

Because sesuai is the predicate of the sentence, not a modifier inside the noun phrase.

Here the structure is basically:

• Kelebaran kabinet itu = subject
• sesuai = predicate

You would use yang if sesuai were modifying a noun, for example:

• kabinet yang sesuai = a suitable cabinet

But in Kelebaran kabinet itu sesuai, you are making a full statement about the width, so yang is not needed.

Not always.

Sesuai can stand on its own and mean suitable / appropriate / right when the context is clear.

But if you want to say what something is suitable for or suitable with, you can add more information:

• sesuai untuk dapur kecil = suitable for a small kitchen
• sesuai dengan reka bentuk itu = suitable with / appropriate to that design

In this sentence, the idea is complete without adding anything else.

Malay nouns usually do not change form for singular and plural.

So kabinet could theoretically mean cabinet or cabinets, depending on context. In this sentence, though, kabinet itu most naturally refers to one specific cabinet.

Yes, it is grammatical and understandable.

It sounds fairly neutral, though a little more structured or formal because kelebaran is an abstract noun. That is normal in careful written or spoken Malay.

In casual speech, speakers might sometimes choose a simpler phrasing depending on context, but the sentence itself is perfectly fine.

Yes, a little.

A learner may expect lebar first, because lebar is the basic word meaning wide. Also, in some contexts or varieties, forms like ke-...-an can have other nuances. But in this sentence, kelebaran should simply be understood as the noun width.

So the safest reading here is:

• kelebaran = width
• sesuai = suitable / appropriate

Together, the sentence is talking about whether the cabinet’s width is appropriate.