Kadar tarif untuk penggunaan elektrik itu tinggi.

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Breakdown of Kadar tarif untuk penggunaan elektrik itu tinggi.

• untuk: for
• tinggi: high
• penggunaan elektrik: electricity usage

Questions & Answers about Kadar tarif untuk penggunaan elektrik itu tinggi.

Why are both kadar and tarif used here? Don’t they both mean rate?

They are related, but not exactly identical.

• kadar = rate, level, proportion
• tarif = tariff, charged rate, price schedule

So kadar tarif is a fairly formal way to say the tariff rate or the charging rate. In everyday language, people may shorten it depending on context, but this version sounds technical or administrative.

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Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

Malay often leaves out the verb to be in simple sentences like this.

So:

• Kadar tarif untuk penggunaan elektrik itu tinggi. = The tariff rate for electricity usage is high.

Here, tinggi works as the predicate adjective, and no separate word for is is required.

In more formal writing, you may sometimes see adalah, but in normal usage it is very common to say it without any copula.

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What does untuk mean here?

Here untuk means for.

It links kadar tarif with what the tariff applies to:

• untuk penggunaan elektrik = for electricity usage

So the idea is not just any tariff rate, but specifically the tariff rate for using electricity.

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What is penggunaan? Why not just use guna?