Nenek makan biskut dengan madu semasa minum teh panas.

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• nenek = grandmother / grandma
• makan = eat / eats / eating
• biskut = biscuit / biscuits
• dengan = with
• madu = honey
• semasa = during / while
• minum = drink / drinks / drinking
• teh = tea
• panas = hot

So the sentence means something like Grandma eats biscuits with honey while drinking hot tea.

In Malay, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• teh panas = hot tea
• literally, tea hot

This is different from English, where adjectives usually come before the noun.

More examples:

• rumah besar = big house
• air sejuk = cold water
• baju merah = red shirt

So teh panas follows a very normal Malay pattern.

Malay does not normally use articles the way English does.

In English, you often need words like:

• a
• an
• the
• some

In Malay, nouns can often appear by themselves:

• biskut can mean a biscuit, biscuits, or the biscuit(s) depending on context
• teh panas can mean hot tea, some hot tea, or the hot tea

Context tells you what is meant.

So Nenek makan biskut is perfectly natural without adding an article.

Malay verbs usually do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

The verb makan can mean:

• eat
• eats
• is eating
• ate

The exact time is understood from context, or from time words if they are added.

For example:

• Nenek makan biskut = Grandma eats / is eating / ate biscuits
• Semalam nenek makan biskut = Yesterday grandma ate biscuits
• Sekarang nenek sedang makan biskut = Grandma is eating biscuits now

In your sentence, without extra markers, it can be understood as a general statement or as something happening in a scene.

Malay often leaves out a repeated subject when it is already clear from context.

So in:

• Nenek makan biskut dengan madu semasa minum teh panas

the subject of minum is understood to be the same as the earlier subject, nenek.

It is basically understood as:

• Nenek makan biskut dengan madu semasa nenek minum teh panas

But repeating nenek would sound less natural unless you want emphasis or extra clarity.

This is similar to English in sentences like:

• Grandma ate biscuits while drinking tea

You do not usually repeat Grandma before drinking either.

Dengan most often means with, but with can mean different things in English, and the same is true in Malay.

Here, dengan madu most naturally means:

• with honey
• together with honey
• accompanied by honey

So biskut dengan madu means biscuits with honey.

In other contexts, dengan can also mean:

• using
  
  • potong dengan pisau = cut with a knife
• together with
  
  • saya pergi dengan kawan = I went with a friend

So the exact meaning depends on context.

Usually it suggests biscuits with honey, meaning the biscuits are eaten together with honey, perhaps dipped in it or served with it.

It does not necessarily mean the honey is baked into the biscuits.

Malay often leaves this kind of detail unstated unless it matters.

If you wanted to be more explicit, you could say things like:

• biskut yang dimakan dengan madu = biscuits eaten with honey
• biskut bermadu = honey biscuits, though this is less neutral and depends on context

So in your sentence, the most natural understanding is simply biscuits with honey.

Semasa means during or while. It introduces a time relationship.

So:

• semasa minum teh panas = while drinking hot tea

A close alternative is sambil, which often emphasizes that two actions happen at the same time, often by the same person.

Compare:

• Nenek makan biskut semasa minum teh panas = Grandma eats biscuits while drinking hot tea
• Nenek makan biskut sambil minum teh panas = Grandma eats biscuits while drinking hot tea

In this sentence, sambil would sound very natural too.

A rough difference:

• semasa = during / at the time of
• sambil = while doing something simultaneously

But in many everyday sentences, they overlap.

Because Malay does not have to mark the progressive form every time.

Sedang is used when you specifically want to emphasize an action is in progress:

• Nenek sedang minum teh panas = Grandma is drinking hot tea

But very often Malay simply uses the base verb:

• Nenek minum teh panas

This can still mean Grandma is drinking hot tea, depending on context.

So semasa minum teh panas is completely normal. It does not need sedang unless the speaker wants that extra sense of ongoing action.

It could be either, depending on context.

Malay nouns are often not marked for plural unless there is a reason to be specific.

So:

• biskut = biscuit / biscuits

If you really want to emphasize plurality, Malay can use reduplication:

• biskut-biskut = biscuits

But in normal speech, that is often unnecessary if the meaning is already clear.

In this sentence, English would most naturally translate it as biscuits, but the Malay word itself does not force singular or plural.

Nenek most commonly means grandmother / grandma.

Depending on context, it can be:

• my grandma
• grandma
• the grandmother
• sometimes an elderly woman, though context matters

Malay often omits possessives when they are understood. So nenek by itself can be enough.

If you wanted to be specific, you could say:

• nenek saya = my grandmother
• nenek itu = that grandmother

In your sentence, nenek is best understood as Grandma or Grandmother.

Yes. Malay word order is flexible in some cases, especially with time phrases.

For example, these are also natural:

• Semasa minum teh panas, nenek makan biskut dengan madu.
• Nenek makan biskut dengan madu ketika minum teh panas.

The original sentence is still perfectly good. Changing the order usually changes focus rather than basic meaning.

For example:

• starting with Semasa minum teh panas puts more attention on the time/background
• starting with Nenek puts more attention on the subject

It usually means hot tea, and yes, that normally implies tea that is hot in temperature.

Malay adjective phrases like teh panas are very straightforward:

• teh panas = hot tea
• kopi sejuk = cold coffee

So it is both a normal description of the kind of tea being drunk and a statement about its temperature.

If context required, Malay could be more specific, but in ordinary usage teh panas is exactly what you would expect for hot tea.