Juruteknik wanita itu datang lewat sedikit, tetapi dia membaiki komputer saya dengan cepat.

Yes. In Malay, words that describe a noun often come after the noun.

So:

• juruteknik = technician
• wanita = woman / female

Together, juruteknik wanita means female technician.

This is a very common Malay pattern:

• rumah besar = big house
• kereta merah = red car
• guru lelaki = male teacher
• juruteknik wanita = female technician

So unlike English, where female comes before technician, Malay often puts that descriptive word after the noun.

Itu usually means that, but in sentences like this it often works like the in English, especially when referring to someone or something already known in the conversation.

So:

• juruteknik wanita itu = that female technician / the female technician

Malay does not have a direct word for the, so itu is often used to make the noun feel definite or specific.

Compare:

• juruteknik wanita = a female technician / female technician
• juruteknik wanita itu = the female technician / that female technician

Because the normal Malay noun phrase order is:

noun + description + itu/ini

So here:

• juruteknik = noun
• wanita = description
• itu = definite marker / that

This gives:

juruteknik wanita itu

That order is very typical in Malay. More examples:

• buku merah itu = that red book
• rumah besar itu = that big house
• lelaki tua itu = that old man

Putting itu before the noun would usually not be correct in this kind of phrase.

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

In English:

• comes
• came
• has come

In Malay, the verb often stays the same, and time is understood from context or from time words.

So:

• datang can mean come, came, or is coming, depending on context.
• membaiki can mean repairs, repaired, or is repairing, again depending on context.

In this sentence, the overall meaning tells you it is talking about a past event, even though the verbs themselves do not show past tense.

If Malay wants to make time clearer, it can add words like:

• semalam = yesterday
• sudah = already
• sedang = currently / in the process of

For example:

• Dia sudah datang. = She/He has already come.
• Dia sedang membaiki komputer saya. = She/He is repairing my computer.

Because Malay third-person singular pronouns usually do not show gender.

• dia = he / she

So in this sentence, dia refers back to the female technician, and we know from context that it means she.

This is very normal in Malay. The language usually does not force you to mark gender in pronouns the way English does.

Usually, dia is used for people.

For things, Malay often just repeats the noun, leaves the pronoun out, or uses another structure depending on context. Malay does not have a direct everyday equivalent of English it used in all the same ways.

So in this sentence, dia clearly refers to the technician, a person.

Datang lewat sedikit means arrived a little late or came a bit late.

Breakdown:

• datang = come / arrive
• lewat = late
• sedikit = a little / slightly

So lewat sedikit means slightly late or a little late.

In Malay, sedikit often comes after the adjective or adverb it modifies:

• mahal sedikit = a little expensive
• lambat sedikit = a little slow
• lewat sedikit = a little late

Yes, you may hear both, but lewat sedikit sounds very natural in Malay.

Malay often places degree words like sedikit after the word being described, especially in everyday speech:

• panas sedikit
• tinggi sedikit
• lambat sedikit

So for learners, lewat sedikit is a very good and natural pattern to remember.

Tetapi means but.

It connects two contrasting ideas:

• the technician arrived a little late
• she repaired the computer quickly

So the sentence says, in effect:

She was slightly late, but she fixed my computer quickly.

Other Malay words that can also mean but include:

• tapi = a shorter, more conversational form
• namun = however / nevertheless, often more formal

In this sentence, tetapi is a standard and clear choice.

Because baik by itself usually means good, not to repair.

The verb membaiki means to repair / to fix.

It is built from the root baik with Malay verb-forming affixes:

• meN- (here appearing as mem-)
• -i

So:

• baik = good
• membaiki = to repair / fix

This is a useful thing to know: in Malay, many verbs are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots.

This happens because the meN- prefix changes form depending on the first sound of the root. This is a normal sound pattern in Malay.

Before certain sounds, meN- becomes different forms such as:

• mem-
• men-
• meng-
• meny-

With baik, the verb becomes membaiki.

You do not need to master all the sound-change rules at once, but it is useful to recognize that meN- is one prefix with several surface forms.

The -i often helps form a transitive verb, especially one that acts on an object.

Here:

• membaiki komputer saya = repair my computer

So -i is part of the normal verb form used for repairing something.

For a beginner, the safest approach is to learn membaiki as a whole word meaning to repair/fix something.

In Malay, possessives usually come after the noun.

So:

• komputer saya = my computer
• buku saya = my book
• rumah saya = my house

This is one of the biggest word-order differences from English.

So:

• English: my computer
• Malay: komputer saya

Malay does not normally use articles like a/an and the the way English does.

So komputer can mean:

• a computer
• the computer
• computer

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, komputer saya naturally means my computer, and that is already specific enough, so no article is needed.

Dengan cepat literally means with speed or in a quick manner, and it functions like quickly.

Breakdown:

• dengan = with
• cepat = fast / quick

Together:

• dengan cepat = quickly

In Malay, adverbial meaning is often expressed with dengan + adjective:

• dengan cepat = quickly
• dengan baik = well
• dengan perlahan = slowly

In many contexts, Malay can also use cepat by itself, but dengan cepat is very clear and natural.

In Malay, many words can function as either adjective-like or adverb-like depending on context.

• kereta itu cepat = that car is fast
• dia berlari cepat = he/she runs fast
• dia membaiki komputer saya dengan cepat = she repaired my computer quickly

So cepat itself is very flexible. In this sentence, it appears inside the adverbial phrase dengan cepat.

Because it contains two connected ideas:

1. Juruteknik wanita itu datang lewat sedikit
2. tetapi dia membaiki komputer saya dengan cepat

The comma helps separate the two parts, and tetapi shows contrast.

This is very similar to English:

• The female technician arrived a little late, but she repaired my computer quickly.

So the sentence structure is actually quite close to English in overall logic, even though some word order details are different.

Yes. Tapi is very common in everyday spoken Malay.

So:

• ..., tetapi dia membaiki komputer saya dengan cepat.
  and
• ..., tapi dia membaiki komputer saya dengan cepat.

Both are fine. The difference is mainly tone:

• tetapi = slightly more neutral or formal
• tapi = more casual and conversational

It is a standard Malay word, though like many modern vocabulary items in Malay, it reflects technical or international usage patterns.

You can treat juruteknik as the normal word for technician.

It is useful to recognize the pattern juru- in some Malay occupations or roles, for example:

• juruterbang = pilot
• jurulatih = coach / trainer
• jurugambar = photographer

So juruteknik is a good practical word to learn.

Yes, to a reasonable degree. The contrast word tetapi already gives that feeling:

• she was a little late
• but she repaired the computer quickly

That naturally suggests a contrast between the slight delay and the efficient repair.

If you wanted even stronger emphasis, Malay could use other wording, but the given sentence already communicates the contrast well.