Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah.

he/she

Breakdown of Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah.

• wayar terdedah: an exposed wire
• merekodkan: to record

Questions & Answers about Dia merekodkan wayar terdedah.

What does dia mean exactly? Is it he, she, or they?

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.

Why is the verb merekodkan and not just rekod?

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.