Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting.

Tomorrow’s meeting requires an important report.

Breakdown of Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting.

• penting: important
• laporan: the report
• esok: tomorrow
• mesyuarat: the meeting
• memerlukan: to require

Questions & Answers about Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting.

What does Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting mean word-by-word?

Breakdown:

• Mesyuarat = meeting
• esok = tomorrow
• memerlukan = require(s)
• laporan = report
• penting = important

Why is esok (tomorrow) placed after mesyuarat (meeting) instead of at the beginning?

In Malay, time expressions can appear in different positions:

• When you put the time after the subject (as in mesyuarat esok), you emphasize the subject (the meeting).
• You could also start with the time: Esok mesyuarat memerlukan laporan penting is still correct, but feels less formal or emphatic on the meeting.

Why is penting (important) after laporan (report), and not before like in English?

Malay adjectives normally follow the noun they modify.

• Correct: laporan penting
• Incorrect: penting laporan
  You can also use a relative marker yang for emphasis: laporan yang penting, but it’s optional here.

Can I use perlu instead of memerlukan? What’s the difference?

• perlu can function as an adjective (“necessary”) or intransitive verb (“need to do something”), but it doesn’t take a direct object.
• memerlukan is the transitive verb “to require/need something,” so you need it when saying “X requires Y.”
  Example:
• Wrong: Mesyuarat esok perlu laporan penting
• Right: Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting

How is the verb memerlukan formed morphologically?

• Root word: perlu (“need/necessary”)
• Prefix meN- marks actor focus (active voice)
• Suffix -kan turns it into a transitive verb (“cause to need”)
  Combine to get memerlukan (“to require” something).

How can I turn Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting into a question?

There are several ways:

1. Use Adakah at the beginning (formal):
   Adakah mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting?
2. Rely on intonation (casual):
   Mesyuarat esok memerlukan laporan penting?
3. Add the question particle -kah after the verb (literary/poetic, rare):
   Memerlukan-kah mesyuarat esok laporan penting?

How do you make this sentence passive?

Option 1 (using diperlukan “is required”):
Laporan penting diperlukan untuk mesyuarat esok.
Option 2 (with oleh to mark agent—less common here):
Laporan penting diperlukan oleh mesyuarat esok.