Taklimat keselamatan selesai; walaupun begitu, kami mengosongkan bengkel untuk tindakan pembetulan.

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Breakdown of Taklimat keselamatan selesai; walaupun begitu, kami mengosongkan bengkel untuk tindakan pembetulan.

• selesai: finished
• walaupun begitu: even so
• bengkel: the workshop

Questions & Answers about Taklimat keselamatan selesai; walaupun begitu, kami mengosongkan bengkel untuk tindakan pembetulan.

Why is there no word for is/was in Taklimat keselamatan selesai?

Malay usually does not need a verb like to be in this kind of sentence.

So:

• Taklimat keselamatan selesai
  literally: safety briefing finished

This is a normal Malay way to say:

• The safety briefing is finished
• The safety briefing has finished
• The safety briefing was finished

The exact time is understood from context. Malay often leaves this unstated unless it is important.

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Why doesn’t the sentence use sudah or telah before selesai?

Because Malay often omits completion markers when the meaning is already clear.

You could say:

• Taklimat keselamatan sudah selesai
• Taklimat keselamatan telah selesai

Both mean roughly The safety briefing has been completed / is over.

But Taklimat keselamatan selesai is also perfectly natural, especially in concise or formal writing. The idea of completion is already carried by selesai.

A rough comparison:

• selesai = finished / complete
• sudah selesai = already finished
• telah selesai = has finished / has been completed, a bit more formal

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