Rakan kongsi itu mengisytiharkan modal.

Rakan kongsi is a two-word expression.

• rakan = friend, associate, colleague
• kongsi = shared / to share

Together, rakan kongsi means partner, especially a business partner or someone you share ownership or responsibility with.

In this sentence, it is understood as a single noun phrase: the/that business partner.

In Malay, demonstratives like ini (this) and itu (that) usually come after the noun.

So:

• rakan kongsi itu = that partner / the partner
• modal itu = that capital

This is normal Malay word order.
Unlike English, you do not usually say the equivalent of that partner with that before the noun.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Malay itu often works as:

• a true demonstrative: that
• or a marker of something already known in the conversation: the

So rakan kongsi itu could be understood as:

• that partner
• the partner
• that business partner

Malay often leaves this kind of distinction to context rather than forcing one exact choice.

The core word is isytihar, which means declare or proclaim.

The full form mengisytiharkan can be broken down like this:

• meng- = an active verb prefix
• isytihar = declare
• -kan = a suffix often used to make the verb clearly transitive or to show something is being acted upon

So mengisytiharkan means to declare something.

In this sentence, the thing being declared is modal.

Malay often builds verbs with prefixes and suffixes.

The bare root isytihar exists, but in a normal full sentence, especially in standard written Malay, the derived form mengisytiharkan sounds more grammatical and natural.

Here is the difference in feel:

• isytihar = the root / dictionary idea
• mengisytiharkan = an active verb meaning to declare

This is very common in Malay. Many verbs appear in actual sentences with forms like:

• membaca from baca
• menulis from tulis
• mengisytiharkan from isytihar

In this sentence, -kan helps make the verb clearly transitive, meaning it takes an object.

So:

• mengisytiharkan modal = declare the capital

The object is modal.

Very roughly, -kan often helps give the sense of do X to something, cause something to be X, or declare/state something. Its exact role changes from verb to verb, but here the important point is that it supports the meaning declare something.

No. In Malay, modal usually means capital, especially in a financial or business sense.

So here it means something like:

• investment capital
• business capital
• funds/assets put into a business

It is not the same as English grammar terms like modal verbs.

Malay contains many words borrowed from other languages, and sometimes they look familiar to English speakers but mean something different.

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

So mengisytiharkan by itself does not tell you whether the action is:

• present
• past
• future

The time is usually understood from context or from time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• hari ini = today
• esok = tomorrow
• telah = already / has
• akan = will

So this sentence could mean:

• The partner declares the capital
• The partner declared the capital
• The partner is declaring the capital

Context decides.

Yes. This is standard Subject–Verb–Object order:

• Rakan kongsi itu = subject
• mengisytiharkan = verb
• modal = object

So the structure is:

[Subject] [Verb] [Object]

That is one of the most common sentence patterns in Malay, and it is quite similar to English.

Yes, if you wanted to specify that/the capital, you could say:

• Rakan kongsi itu mengisytiharkan modal itu.

That would mean The/That partner declared that capital or the capital, depending on context.

Without itu, modal is more general or simply definite through context.

Yes, it is fairly formal and common in official, business, legal, or news-style language.

For example, you might see it in contexts like:

• declaring assets
• declaring income
• proclaiming something officially
• making a formal announcement

In everyday casual speech, speakers might sometimes choose simpler verbs depending on the situation, but mengisytiharkan is perfectly correct and natural in formal standard Malay.

A helpful rough breakdown is:

meng-isytihar-kan

You can think of it in parts:

• meng
• isytihar
• kan

A rough English-friendly guide might be:

muhng-ees-tee-har-kahn

But it is better to treat that only as a rough aid, because Malay pronunciation is generally more consistent than English spelling.

A few helpful points:

• ng in meng is like the sound in sing
• sy in isytihar sounds like sh
• the final -kan is usually pronounced clearly

Yes. Malay often allows both active and passive patterns.

An active version:

• Rakan kongsi itu mengisytiharkan modal.

A passive version could be:

• Modal diisytiharkan oleh rakan kongsi itu.

This means The capital was declared by that/the partner.

This is useful because Malay makes active/passive contrasts quite productively. Here:

• mengisytiharkan = active
• diisytiharkan = passive

So learning the active sentence also helps you recognize the passive form later.