Nampaknya buku terpakai daripada sumbangan buku sudah habis dijual.

Nampaknya means it seems, apparently, or it looks like.

At the start of a sentence, it shows that the speaker is making an observation or inference, not stating something in the strongest possible way.

So:

• Nampaknya... = It seems that...

In this sentence, it suggests something like: based on what we can see or know, the books are already sold out.

Because in Malay, descriptive words usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• buku terpakai = used books
• literally: books used

This is normal Malay word order.

Compare:

• rumah besar = big house
• kereta baru = new car
• buku lama = old book

So buku terpakai is the standard Malay order.

Yes. In this sentence, terpakai means used, second-hand, or pre-owned.

So:

• buku terpakai = used books / second-hand books

This is a common phrase, just like:

• barang terpakai = used goods

Even though forms with ter- can sometimes be tricky in Malay, here you should understand terpakai as a fixed adjective meaning used.

Here, daripada means from in the sense of source or origin.

So:

• daripada sumbangan buku = from book donations

A useful rule of thumb is:

• dari often relates to place, time, or direction
• daripada often relates to source, origin, material, or comparison

Since the books come from donations, daripada is the more standard choice here.

In casual speech, some speakers may use dari more broadly, but daripada fits this sentence better.

Sumbangan means donation or contribution, and buku means book/books.

Together, sumbangan buku means:

• book donation
• book donations
• a donation of books

So daripada sumbangan buku means the books came from donated books or from a book-donation source.

This is a noun phrase, and Malay often puts nouns together like this without extra words.

Because Malay does not always need yang when adding a phrase that describes a noun.

Here:

• buku terpakai daripada sumbangan buku

means:

• used books from book donations

The phrase daripada sumbangan buku directly modifies buku terpakai.

If you wanted a more expanded version, you could say something like:

• buku terpakai yang datang daripada sumbangan buku

But that is more explicit and less compact. The original sentence is normal and economical.

Sudah means already and marks the action as completed.

So:

• sudah dijual = already sold
• sudah habis dijual = already completely sold out

Without sudah, the sentence would still make sense, but it would lose the clear idea of already.

Because dijual and habis dijual are not exactly the same.

• dijual = sold
• habis dijual = sold out / all sold

Here, habis adds the idea of completeness. It tells you that none are left.

This is a very common Malay pattern:

• habis dimakan = completely eaten up
• habis diminum = drunk up
• habis dijual = sold out

So sudah habis dijual means have already all been sold out.

Dijual is the passive form of jual.

• jual = to sell
• dijual = be sold / sold

Malay often uses the passive when the doer is unknown, obvious, or unimportant. In this sentence, the focus is on the books, not on who sold them.

So the sentence is centered on:

• what happened to the books

rather than:

• who did the selling

That is very natural in Malay.

The main subject is:

• buku terpakai daripada sumbangan buku

Everything after that tells us what happened to those books:

• sudah habis dijual

And nampaknya comments on the whole statement.

So the structure is roughly:

• Nampaknya = it seems
• buku terpakai daripada sumbangan buku = the used books from book donations
• sudah habis dijual = have already been sold out

Because Malay often does not mark plural explicitly if the meaning is already clear from context.

So:

• buku can mean book or books

In this sentence, the idea of multiple books is clear from context, so buku-buku is not necessary.

Malay only uses reduplication like buku-buku when the speaker wants to emphasize plurality, be especially clear, or sound more specific in certain contexts.

A helpful breakdown is:

• Nampaknya = it seems / apparently
• buku terpakai = used books
• daripada sumbangan buku = from book donations
• sudah = already
• habis dijual = sold out / completely sold

So a very natural English rendering would be:

• It seems the used books from the book donations have already sold out.
• or It seems the used books from the donations have already all been sold.

The important thing is not to translate every word too literally, especially habis dijual, which is best understood as sold out.