Adik saya tertidur di sofa selepas menonton filem.

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Breakdown of Adik saya tertidur di sofa selepas menonton filem.

• selepas: after
• saya: my
• di: on

Questions & Answers about Adik saya tertidur di sofa selepas menonton filem.

What exactly does adik mean? Does it mean younger brother or younger sister?

Adik means younger sibling, without specifying gender. It can be a younger brother or a younger sister.
If you want to be specific:

• adik lelaki = younger brother
• adik perempuan = younger sister

So the full phrase Adik saya literally means my younger sibling, and context usually makes the gender clear.

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Why is it Adik saya and not saya adik for “my younger sibling”?

In Malay, the usual way to say “my X” is:

[noun] + [pronoun]

So:

• adik saya = my younger sibling
• ibu saya = my mother
• kereta saya = my car

Saya adik would instead mean something like I am a younger sibling (and even then, it sounds incomplete and unnatural without more context).

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Why is there no word for “fell” in tertidur? How do we know it means “fell asleep” and not just “sleep”?