Mereka menerima salinan diperakui itu.

Mereka is the 3rd-person plural pronoun, so it can mean they or them depending on its role in the sentence.

In Mereka menerima salinan diperakui itu, mereka is the subject, so it means they.

Malay pronouns do not change form the way English pronouns do. So:

• Mereka datang = They came
• Saya nampak mereka = I saw them

The position in the sentence tells you the function.

Menerima comes from the base word terima, which means receive or accept.

The prefix meN- is added to form an active verb. In this case:

• terima → menerima

So menerima means to receive / receives / received, depending on context.

This is very common in Malay: a base word gets a prefix to become a normal active verb.

No. Malay verbs usually do not change form for tense.

So menerima by itself does not specifically mean present or past. The time is understood from context, or shown with time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• sekarang = now
• esok = tomorrow
• sudah / telah = already
• akan = will

So Mereka menerima salinan diperakui itu could mean:

• They receive that certified copy
• They received that certified copy

Usually context tells you which one is meant.

Salinan means copy.

It is formed from the root salin, which relates to copying, plus the suffix -an, which often forms a noun.

So:

• salin = copy (verb/root idea)
• salinan = a copy / the copy

This is a useful pattern in Malay. The suffix -an often creates a thing or result connected to the root.

Diperakui means something like certified, verified, or officially acknowledged, depending on context.

In this sentence, salinan diperakui is best understood as a certified copy.

Grammatically, diperakui is a passive form, and in a noun phrase like this it works much like an English past participle:

• salinan diperakui = copy that has been certified

So even though English uses certified as an adjective, Malay often expresses the same idea with a passive verb form after the noun.

Because in Malay, modifiers usually come after the noun, not before it.

So Malay typically says:

• rumah besar = big house
• kereta merah = red car
• salinan diperakui = certified copy

This is one of the most important word-order differences from English. The noun usually comes first, and the describing word or phrase follows it.

Itu literally means that, but it is also often used to mark something as specific or already known.

So in this sentence, itu belongs to the noun phrase:

• salinan diperakui itu = that certified copy / the certified copy

It does not go with the whole sentence. It goes with the noun phrase at the end.

Malay often uses itu after the noun phrase, not before it as in English:

• buku itu = that book / the book
• salinan diperakui itu = that certified copy

Because itu normally comes at the end of the whole noun phrase.

The noun phrase here is:

• salinan = copy
• diperakui = certified
• itu = that

So the full phrase is:

• salinan diperakui itu

This is a common Malay structure:

noun + modifier + itu

For example:

• rumah besar itu = that big house
• kereta baharu itu = that new car

So itu comes after the descriptive element, not in the middle.

Malay does not have articles that work exactly like English a/an and the.

Whether something is indefinite or definite is usually understood from context, or shown by words like itu.

So:

• salinan can mean a copy or the copy, depending on context
• salinan itu often means that copy or the copy
• salinan diperakui itu often means that certified copy or the certified copy

This is why translating word-for-word from English can be misleading.

Yes. The sentence follows the normal Malay order:

Subject + Verb + Object

• Mereka = subject
• menerima = verb
• salinan diperakui itu = object

So the structure is very straightforward and natural.

Inside the object, the order is also normal for Malay:

Noun + modifier + itu

Yes. Malay uses passive forms very often.

An active version is:

• Mereka menerima salinan diperakui itu.
  • They received that certified copy.

A passive version could be:

• Salinan diperakui itu diterima oleh mereka.
  • That certified copy was received by them.

Here:

• diterima is the passive form of menerima
• oleh mereka means by them

So the original sentence is active, but Malay could easily express the same idea passively.