Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah.

Dia is a third-person singular pronoun. It can mean he or she, and Malay usually does not mark gender here.

So in this sentence, dia could refer to:

• a man
• a woman

It normally does not mean singular they in the same way English uses it, although in translation English may sometimes choose they if the gender is unknown.

A few related points:

• dia is common in everyday Malay.
• beliau is a more respectful form, often used for important people.
• ia is usually used for things, ideas, or animals in more formal writing, not for ordinary people in casual speech.

Merekodkan is built from the base rekod with affixes.

Breakdown:

• rekod = record
• meN- → forms an active verb
• -kan → often adds a sense of doing something to/for an object, or causing something to be treated in a certain way

So merekodkan means something like to record / to document / to register something.

In real usage, Malay speakers may also say merekod without -kan, and both can appear depending on style and nuance. In many contexts, merekodkan sounds a bit more formal or more clearly transitive.

The suffix -kan often helps make a verb clearly take an object, or gives it a causative/applicative flavor.

Here, it helps present wayar terdedah as the thing being recorded/documented.

Compare the idea:

• merekod = to record
• merekodkan sesuatu = to record/document something

That said, Malay affixes do not always match a single neat English rule. The exact effect of -kan depends on the verb. In this sentence, the simplest practical understanding is:

• merekodkan = recorded/documented
  • a direct object

This is the normal Malay word order:

• Subject + Verb + Object

So:

• Dia = subject
• merekodkan = verb
• wayar terdedah = object

That makes the sentence structurally very straightforward.

In Malay, modifiers like adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• wayar terdedah = exposed wire / exposed wires

This is very normal Malay word order.

Other similar examples:

• rumah besar = big house
• kereta baru = new car
• pintu terbuka = open door

So even though English puts exposed before wire, Malay naturally puts terdedah after wayar.

Terdedah is often used like an adjective meaning exposed, but it is also connected to the prefix ter-, which can give a stative meaning.

In this sentence, terdedah describes the condition of the wire:

• the wire is exposed
• the wire is left uncovered
• the wire is visible / unprotected

So for a learner, the easiest way to treat it here is as an adjective-like word meaning exposed.

You can think of wayar terdedah as:

• an exposed wire
• wiring that is exposed

Yes. Wayar yang terdedah is very natural and can sound clearer.

Compare:

• wayar terdedah
• wayar yang terdedah

Both can mean exposed wire / wire that is exposed.

Very roughly:

• without yang: more compact
• with yang: slightly more explicit, often closer to wire that is exposed

In many contexts, especially in careful writing, wayar yang terdedah may sound more natural than wayar terdedah.

It can mean wire or wires. Malay nouns usually do not change form for singular vs. plural.

So wayar by itself can be:

• one wire
• wires in general

If the speaker wants to make plurality very clear, Malay can use:

• context
• a number: dua wayar
• reduplication: wayar-wayar

But very often Malay leaves it unmarked and lets the context tell you.

Malay verbs usually do not show tense the way English verbs do.

So Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah could mean:

• he/she records exposed wire
• he/she recorded exposed wire
• he/she is recording exposed wire

The exact time normally comes from:

• context
• time words such as semalam (yesterday), sekarang (now), esok (tomorrow)
• aspect markers like sedang, telah, akan

For example:

• Dia sedang merekodkan wayar terdedah. = He/she is recording/documenting exposed wire.
• Dia telah merekodkan wayar terdedah. = He/she has recorded/documented exposed wire.
• Dia akan merekodkan wayar terdedah. = He/she will record/document exposed wire.

It can be natural in a specific context, especially if merekodkan means documenting or logging a safety issue.

For example, in an inspection or maintenance context, it could mean that someone:

• recorded the presence of exposed wires
• documented exposed wiring in a report

In everyday speech, some speakers might choose a slightly fuller version for clarity, such as:

• Dia merekodkan wayar yang terdedah.
• Dia merekodkan keadaan wayar yang terdedah.

So the sentence is understandable, but context matters a lot for how natural it feels.

Wayar is a loanword, ultimately from English wire. Malay has many such borrowed words, especially for modern objects and technical vocabulary.

That is very normal in Malay. Other common loanwords exist in technology, administration, science, and daily life.

So if wayar looks familiar to an English speaker, that is not a coincidence.

The base is rekod. When the active prefix meN- is added, its form changes depending on the first sound of the root.

With r, the result is:

• meN- + rekod → merekod

Then add -kan:

• merekodkan

So this is a normal sound/shape change in Malay morphology.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• merekodkan ≈ meh-reh-KOD-kan
• wayar ≈ WA-yar
• terdedah ≈ ter-deh-DAH

Exact pronunciation varies somewhat by speaker and region, but that is a useful approximation.

Yes. The sentence as given is active, because the subject dia is the doer of the action.

An active pattern:

• Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah.

A passive version could be formed in other ways, for example:

• Wayar terdedah direkodkan olehnya.

That means the exposed wire is the thing being acted on.

Malay uses both active and passive structures a lot, and passive is often more common than English learners expect.