Saya minum air empat kali setiap hari.

Malay verbs are not inflected for tense. You don’t change the verb form to show past, present or future. Instead, you rely on:

• Time adverbs (like setiap hari, kemarin, nanti)
• Context
  So minum can be “drink,” “drank,” or “will drink,” depending on surrounding words.

The basic order is Subject–Verb–Object (SVO), and adverbials (time, frequency, manner) usually come after the object. In Saya minum air empat kali setiap hari, the structure is:

1. Saya (Subject)
2. minum (Verb)
3. air (Object)
4. empat kali setiap hari (Frequency + Time adverbial)

Kali means “times” (as in “number of times”). When you count how often something happens, you use a numeral + kali. For example:

• dua kali = two times
• sepuluh kali = ten times
  So empat kali = four times.

Yes. Malay adverbials are fairly flexible. You could say:

• Setiap hari saya minum air empat kali.
• Empat kali setiap hari saya minum air.
  All these mean essentially the same thing; placing the time phrase first simply shifts the emphasis a bit to “every day.”

Both can mean “every day,” but:

• setiap hari is neutral/formal (“each day”)
• hari-hari is colloquial and expresses a habitual feel (“day after day”)
  You can use either to convey daily frequency, though setiap hari is more standard in writing.

Malay does not use definite or indefinite articles. Nouns stand alone without “a,” “an,” or “the.” So:

• air can mean “water,” “some water,” or “the water,” depending on context.
  If you need “some,” you might add sedikit air (“a little water”) or segelas air (“a glass of water”).