Questions & Answers about Usaha awak penting.
In Malay, you normally drop the copula in present-tense equational sentences. The word adalah can serve as “is,” but it’s optional, especially in informal speech.
– Without adalah: Usaha awak penting.
– With adalah (more formal/emphatic): Usaha awak adalah penting.
Awak is the informal second-person pronoun you, widely used in Malaysia.
– Anda is the formal “you.”
– Kamu is more colloquial and often heard in Indonesia.
Malay marks possession by placing the pronoun after the noun. For example:
– buku saya = “my book”
– usaha awak = “your effort”
Just replace awak with the first-person pronoun saya:
Usaha saya penting.
Use anda instead of awak, and you may include adalah for emphasis or formality:
Usaha anda adalah penting.
Introduce the question particle Adakah at the beginning:
Adakah usaha awak penting?
(Formal version: Adakah usaha anda adalah penting?)
Yes. Insert sangat (meaning “very”) before penting:
Usaha awak sangat penting.