Doktor mendapati pesakit itu sihat.

Yes, mendapati often means to find, but in this kind of sentence it usually means to find/observe/determine that something is the case.

So Doktor mendapati pesakit itu sihat is not about physically locating the patient. It means the doctor determined or found that the patient was healthy.

In medical or formal contexts, mendapati often sounds more natural than a very literal English find.

In Malay, demonstratives like ini and itu normally come after the noun.

So:

• pesakit itu = that patient / the patient
• doktor itu = that doctor

This is different from English, where that comes before the noun.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Malay itu literally points to something like that, but in many natural sentences it also works a lot like English the when the person or thing is already identifiable.

So pesakit itu could be understood as:

• that patient
• the patient

Context tells you which is more natural.

Malay often does not use a verb like English is/am/are in simple statements.

So:

• Pesakit itu sihat = The patient is healthy
• literally, it looks more like patient that healthy

Malay allows this kind of structure without needing a separate word for is.

That is very normal in Malay.

Sihat means healthy, and here it describes the condition of pesakit itu.

In the full sentence:

• Doktor = subject
• mendapati = verb
• pesakit itu sihat = what the doctor found to be true

So sihat is describing the patient, not the doctor.

Yes, that is a very useful way to think about it.

You can see:

• Pesakit itu sihat = The patient is healthy

Then the whole sentence says:

• Doktor mendapati [pesakit itu sihat]
• The doctor found [that the patient was healthy]

So the doctor is finding a whole fact or situation, not just a single object.

It can be used, but it is often omitted.

Both are possible:

• Doktor mendapati pesakit itu sihat
• Doktor mendapati bahawa pesakit itu sihat

bahawa means that, but Malay often leaves it out when the meaning is already clear.

The version without bahawa is very natural.

Malay does not have articles like English a/an/the.

So doktor can mean:

• a doctor
• the doctor
• sometimes even doctors, depending on context

The exact meaning comes from the situation, not from a separate article.

In this sentence, English usually translates it as the doctor or a doctor depending on context.

Mostly yes.

The main order is:

• Doktor = subject
• mendapati = verb
• pesakit itu sihat = object/complement clause

That is broadly similar to English:

• The doctor found the patient healthy
• The doctor found that the patient was healthy

So an English speaker can follow the structure fairly easily, even though some details are different, like itu coming after the noun and the lack of is.

Normally, no.

If the sentence meant the healthy patient as a noun phrase, Malay would more naturally make that relationship clearer in another way. In Doktor mendapati pesakit itu sihat, the most natural reading is:

• the doctor found
• that the patient
• was healthy

So sihat is understood as the patient's condition, not as part of the object noun phrase healthy patient.

Both can be translated as find, but they are not always used the same way.

• menemui often means to meet or to find/come across
• mendapati often means to discover, to realize, or to determine

In this sentence, mendapati is better because the doctor is making a conclusion about the patient’s condition.

So Doktor mendapati pesakit itu sihat sounds more natural than using menemui here.

Yes. Malay nouns usually do not have a special singular/plural form.

So:

• doktor can mean doctor or doctors
• pesakit can mean patient or patients

In this sentence, the meaning is understood as singular because the context strongly suggests one doctor and one patient.

If Malay wants to make plurality very explicit, it can use reduplication or other clues, but that is not necessary here.

It sounds fairly neutral to formal.

The verb mendapati is common in careful speech, writing, reports, and professional contexts. That suits a medical sentence well.

In very casual conversation, someone might choose a simpler wording, but this sentence is completely natural and correct.