Penyelia merekodkan tumpahan.

a spill

Breakdown of Penyelia merekodkan tumpahan.

• penyelia: a supervisor
• merekodkan: to record

Questions & Answers about Penyelia merekodkan tumpahan.

What part of the sentence is penyelia, and what does it literally mean?

Penyelia is the subject of the sentence: the person doing the action.

It means supervisor. It is a noun formed from the root selia (to supervise/oversee) with a noun-forming prefix, so penyelia is literally the person who supervises.

So in this sentence:

• Penyelia = supervisor
• merekodkan = records
• tumpahan = the spill / spillage

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Why is the verb merekodkan instead of just rekod?

Rekod is the base form, borrowed from English record.

In actual Malay sentences, verbs are often built from a root using affixes. Here, meN- ... -kan is added:

• rekod → merekodkan

This makes it a full transitive verb meaning to record something or to make a record of something.

So:

• rekod = record
• merekodkan = to record something

In this sentence, the thing being recorded is tumpahan.

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What does the -kan ending do in merekodkan?