Tolong lampirkan dokumen penting dalam emel sebelum awak hantar laporan.

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Breakdown of Tolong lampirkan dokumen penting dalam emel sebelum awak hantar laporan.

• sebelum: before
• penting: important
• hantar: to send

Questions & Answers about Tolong lampirkan dokumen penting dalam emel sebelum awak hantar laporan.

Why does the sentence start with tolong? Does it literally mean “help”?

In Malay tolong can mean either “help” or function as a polite request marker akin to “please.”

• Here it doesn’t ask someone else to help you, but politely asks the listener to perform an action.
• If you meant “help me,” you’d say Tolong bantu saya.

What is the role of the suffix -kan in lampirkan? And why isn’t there a me- prefix?

• The root word is lampir (“to attach”).
• The suffix -kan turns it into a transitive/cause-to-receive verb: “attach (something).”
• The full active form is melampirkan, but in an imperative you can drop the me- to get lampirkan.
• So lampirkan = “[you] attach [it].”

Why is it dokumen penting instead of penting dokumen?

In Malay, adjectives normally come after the noun they modify.

• dokumen = document
• penting = important
• Together: dokumen penting = “important document.”

Can I use pada emel or di emel instead of dalam emel?