Kedudukan pemulihan membantu membuka saluran udara.

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• kedudukan = position, posture
• pemulihan = recovery
• membantu = helps, assists
• membuka = opens, to open
• saluran udara = airway, air passage

So kedudukan pemulihan is recovery position, and the whole sentence means that the recovery position helps open the airway.

In Malay, the main noun usually comes first, and the word that describes it comes after.

So:

• kedudukan pemulihan = literally position recovery, meaning recovery position

This is a very common Malay pattern:

• rumah sakit = hospital
• air panas = hot water
• bilik tidur = bedroom

English often puts modifiers before the noun, but Malay often puts them after.

It means helps to open or helps open.

Malay often puts two verbs together like this:

• membantu = help
• membuka = open

So membantu membuka = helps open

There is no extra word needed for to here. English says helps to open or helps open, but Malay simply uses the two verbs together.

Malay does not normally use articles like the or a/an.

So:

• saluran udara can mean an airway, the airway, or airways, depending on context

In this sentence, English naturally translates it as the airway, but Malay does not need a separate word for that.

Literally, it means:

• saluran = channel, passage, tube
• udara = air

So saluran udara is literally air passage or air channel.

In medical or first-aid English, the most natural translation is airway.

The prefix meN- is a very common Malay verb-forming prefix. It often marks an active verb.

Here:

• bantu = help

• membantu = to help

• buka = open
• membuka = to open

You do not always need to analyze the prefix when learning basic sentences, but it is useful to recognize that many Malay verbs are formed this way.

Also notice that the prefix changes shape depending on the first sound of the root word:

• meN- + bantu becomes membantu
• meN- + buka becomes membuka

Malay verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So membantu can mean:

• helps
• is helping
• does help

depending on context.

In a general statement like this, the natural English translation is helps:

• Kedudukan pemulihan membantu membuka saluran udara.
• The recovery position helps open the airway.

Yes, posisi pemulihan would be understandable, because posisi is also used in Malay and is similar to English position.

However, kedudukan sounds more naturally Malay, while posisi can sound more like a borrowed or technical term depending on context.

So:

• kedudukan pemulihan = a very natural Malay way to say recovery position
• posisi pemulihan = understandable, but not always the most standard choice

The subject is already there: kedudukan pemulihan.

So the structure is:

• Kedudukan pemulihan = subject
• membantu membuka = verb phrase
• saluran udara = object

Malay often forms clear, direct sentences without extra filler words. In English, the equivalent is:

• The recovery position helps open the airway.

There is no need for a separate word like it because kedudukan pemulihan is already the thing doing the action.