Di pasar raya, saya tolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur.

Di pasar raya means at the supermarket.

Malay often puts a place phrase at the beginning of the sentence to set the scene first. So:

• Di pasar raya, saya tolak troli... = At the supermarket, I push a trolley...

This is very natural. You could also put the place later, but starting with it gives a nice context-first feel.

Here, di is a preposition meaning at / in / on, depending on context.

So:

• di pasar raya = at the supermarket

It is written separately because this di is a preposition.

That is different from the verbal prefix di-, which is attached to a verb in passive forms:

• dibeli = bought
• ditolak = pushed

So a useful rule is:

• di + place → separate
• di- + verb → attached

Yes. Pasar raya is the usual Malay term for supermarket.

Literally:

• pasar = market
• raya = grand / big / major

So pasar raya is something like big market, but in normal usage it simply means supermarket.

It is written as two words.

Malay does not usually use articles like a, an, or the.

So pasar raya can mean:

• a supermarket
• the supermarket

The exact meaning depends on context.

This is very common in Malay. Learners often want to insert an article, but Malay normally just leaves it out.

This is a very common learner question.

The verb root is tolak, which means push (and in other contexts, reject).

In standard/formal Malay, you would often expect:

• saya menolak troli

However, in everyday, less formal, or conversational-style Malay, speakers often use the bare root verb:

• saya tolak troli

So:

• menolak = more explicitly marked as an active verb, more formal/standard
• tolak = shorter, common in casual usage

Both can be understood, but menolak troli may sound more textbook-standard.

Yes, tolak can mean both push and reject.

Malay words often have several related meanings, and context tells you which one is meant.

Examples:

• tolak troli = push a trolley
• tolak cadangan = reject a proposal

In this sentence, because the object is troli, the meaning is clearly push.

Sambil means while, while also, or at the same time as.

So:

• saya tolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur = I push a trolley while looking for milk and eggs

It links two actions happening together:

1. pushing the trolley
2. looking for milk and eggs

It is a very useful word in everyday Malay.

The root word is cari, meaning look for / search for.

With the active verb prefix meN-, it becomes:

• mencari = to look for / looking for

This is a very standard active verb form.

So in this sentence:

• mencari susu dan telur = looking for milk and eggs

You may also hear cari by itself in casual speech, but mencari is the more standard form here.

This happens because Malay uses the prefix meN- to form many active verbs, and the exact shape of the prefix changes depending on the first sound of the root word.

For cari, the correct form is:

• meN- + cari → mencari

This is part of a common sound-change pattern in Malay verb formation.

You do not need to calculate it every time at first; it is often best just to learn the full verb form as vocabulary:

• cari → mencari
• tolak → menolak
• beli → membeli
• tulis → menulis

Not exactly in the English sense.

Malay does not mark tense on the verb the way English does. The verbs themselves do not change for past, present, or future.

So this sentence could mean something like:

• I am pushing a trolley while looking for milk and eggs
• I push a trolley while looking for milk and eggs
• in a narrative context, even I was pushing a trolley while looking for milk and eggs

Time is usually understood from context or from time words such as:

• sedang = currently / in the middle of
• tadi = earlier / just now
• semalam = yesterday
• akan = will

If you wanted to make the ongoing action more explicit, you could say:

• Di pasar raya, saya sedang menolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur.

Because Malay does not need a verb like am/is/are to build this kind of sentence.

English says:

• I am pushing a trolley

Malay can simply say:

• saya tolak troli
• or more formally saya menolak troli

If you want to stress that the action is happening right now, you can add sedang:

• saya sedang menolak troli = I am pushing a trolley / I am in the process of pushing a trolley

But sedang is optional if the context already makes it clear.

Malay usually does not mark nouns for plural in the same way English does, and it also usually does not use articles like the or some.

So:

• susu = milk
• telur = egg / eggs, depending on context

In this sentence:

• susu dan telur naturally means milk and eggs

Because milk is a mass noun and eggs are often understood as a shopping item, Malay does not need extra marking here.

If someone wanted to be very specific, they could add numbers or classifiers, but it is not necessary in a normal sentence like this.

Troli is a borrowed word, from English trolley.

Malay has many loanwords, especially for modern everyday objects. The spelling is adapted to Malay spelling conventions:

• trolley → troli

This is completely normal and widely used.

Yes.

The comma after Di pasar raya helps show that the place phrase has been put at the front as an introduction:

• Di pasar raya, saya tolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur.

In informal writing, people may omit the comma:

• Di pasar raya saya tolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur.

Both are understandable. The comma just makes the structure a little clearer.

Malay word order is fairly flexible, but some orders sound more natural than others.

The given sentence is natural because it goes:

1. place
2. subject
3. action
4. simultaneous action
5. objects

You could also say:

• Saya tolak troli sambil mencari susu dan telur di pasar raya.

That is also understandable, but it puts the location at the end instead of setting the scene first.

So the word order is not completely fixed, but the original version is a very natural way to say it.

No.

In this sentence, the subject after sambil is understood to be the same subject as before:

• saya tolak troli sambil mencari...

This means:

• I push a trolley while I am looking for...

Malay often leaves out repeated subjects when they are already clear from context.

If you repeated saya, it would usually sound unnecessary here.