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Questions & Answers about Saya minum air segar.
What does saya mean in the sentence?
Saya translates to I in English. It serves as the subject pronoun, indicating who is performing the action in the sentence.
What is the word order used in this Malay sentence?
Malay typically follows a Subject-Verb-Object structure. In this sentence, saya is the subject, minum is the verb, and air segar is the object, similar to the standard English structure.
What does minum mean and how is it used here?
Minum means to drink. In Malay, verbs do not change form based on the subject or tense. This means minum is used universally, with context or additional words clarifying the tense if needed.
How is the adjective segar functioning in the phrase air segar?
In Malay, adjectives come after the noun they modify. Here, air means water and segar means fresh, so air segar literally translates to water fresh—which is understood as fresh water.
How could you form a question using this sentence?
You can transform the sentence into a yes/no question by adding a question particle. For example, by adding kah or sometimes using adakah, you might ask Adakah saya minum air segar? which means Do I drink fresh water?
Why doesn’t the sentence include articles like a or the?
Malay does not use articles in the same way as English. Nouns such as air are used without an equivalent of a or the, so air segar naturally means fresh water without the need for any additional article.