Dia menubuhkan syarikat dan memerlukan lesen perniagaan.

In Malay, dia is a third-person singular pronoun that is usually gender-neutral. It can mean he, she, or sometimes they in casual context when talking about one person whose gender is not being emphasized.

So in this sentence, Dia menubuhkan syarikat dan memerlukan lesen perniagaan, dia could refer to either a man or a woman. You need context to know which.

Menubuhkan means to establish, to found, or to set up something such as an organization, company, committee, or institution.

In this sentence, menubuhkan syarikat means:

• to establish a company
• to set up a company
• to found a company

It comes from the root tubuh, and with the prefix/suffix pattern meN-...-kan, it becomes a transitive verb meaning to cause something to be formed or established.

Menubuhkan is the normal active verb form used in a full sentence when the subject is doing the action.

Compare:

• Dia menubuhkan syarikat. = He/She establishes/founds a company.
• Tubuhkan syarikat! = Establish a company! / Set up a company!
  This is more like a command.

So menubuhkan is used because the sentence is a normal statement, not an instruction.

The pattern meN-...-kan often creates an active transitive verb, meaning a verb that takes an object.

Here:

• menubuhkan syarikat → the object is syarikat
• memerlukan lesen perniagaan → the object is lesen perniagaan

This pattern is very common in Malay. It often gives the sense of:

• doing something to/for something
• causing something
• making something happen
• using a verb in a more formal transitive way

You do not always need to translate the affixes separately; it is usually best to learn the whole verb as one unit.

Syarikat usually means company in the business sense.

Depending on context, it can also refer more generally to:

• a firm
• a corporation
• a business entity

In this sentence, syarikat clearly means company.

Examples:

• syarikat besar = a large company
• syarikat tempatan = a local company
• menubuhkan syarikat = to set up a company

Memerlukan means to need or to require.

So:

• Dia memerlukan lesen perniagaan = He/She needs a business license or He/She requires a business license

In everyday translation, needs is often the most natural English choice.

Malay does not use articles like a, an, and the the way English does.

So:

• syarikat can mean a company, the company, or simply company, depending on context
• lesen perniagaan can mean a business license or the business license

The sentence does not explicitly mark indefiniteness the way English does. English translations add a or the based on what sounds natural.

In Malay, the head noun usually comes first, and the describing noun comes after it.

So:

• lesen perniagaan literally = license business
• natural English = business license

The same pattern appears in many Malay noun phrases:

• kad pengenalan = identity card
• rumah sewa = rental house
• pusat bandar = city center

So lesen perniagaan follows a very normal Malay word order.

Dan means and.

It links the two verb phrases:

• menubuhkan syarikat
• memerlukan lesen perniagaan

So the structure is:

• Dia = subject
• menubuhkan syarikat = first action
• dan = and
• memerlukan lesen perniagaan = second action

This means the same subject (dia) is doing both actions.

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

So menubuhkan and memerlukan do not specifically mean:

• present
• past
• future

The time is understood from context, or from added time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• sekarang = now
• esok = tomorrow
• sedang = in the process of
• akan = will

Without extra markers, this sentence can often be translated naturally as present:

• He/She is setting up a company and needs a business license or
• He/She sets up a company and requires a business license

In most contexts, is setting up ... and needs ... is the most natural English interpretation.

Normally, in a full neutral sentence like this, dia is included because it is the subject.

Malay sometimes drops subjects in conversation when they are already obvious from context, but in a standard standalone sentence, keeping dia is the clearest and most natural choice.

So:

• Dia menubuhkan syarikat dan memerlukan lesen perniagaan. = clear, complete sentence

If you removed dia, the sentence could sound incomplete unless the subject had just been mentioned.

Yes, often memerlukan sounds a bit more formal or more explicitly verbal than perlu.

Compare:

• Dia memerlukan lesen perniagaan. = He/She requires/needs a business license.
• Dia perlu lesen perniagaan. = He/She needs a business license.

Both can work, but memerlukan is a full transitive verb with lesen perniagaan as its object.
Perlu often behaves more like need to / necessary / need, depending on structure.

For learners, it is useful to remember:

• memerlukan + noun
• perlu + noun / verb, depending on context

Yes, it is grammatical and understandable. It sounds fairly neutral to slightly formal.

A very natural English translation would be:

• He/She is setting up a company and needs a business license.

In a more formal or legal/business context, memerlukan fits especially well.