Jika bekalan elektrik terputus lagi malam ini, saya akan hidupkan lampu suluh.

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Breakdown of Jika bekalan elektrik terputus lagi malam ini, saya akan hidupkan lampu suluh.

• malam ini: tonight
• akan: will
• jika: if

Questions & Answers about Jika bekalan elektrik terputus lagi malam ini, saya akan hidupkan lampu suluh.

Why does the sentence start with jika?

Jika means if. It introduces the condition:

Jika bekalan elektrik terputus lagi malam ini
= If the electricity supply is cut off again tonight

It is a slightly more formal or neutral alternative to kalau, which also means if. In everyday speech, many speakers would naturally say kalau.

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What does bekalan elektrik mean exactly?

Bekalan means supply, and elektrik means electricity. So bekalan elektrik literally means electricity supply or power supply.

In this sentence, it refers to the electrical power in the house or area.

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Why is it terputus and not just putus?

Putus on its own often means broken, cut off, or disconnected.

The form terputus uses the prefix ter-, which often shows that something happens unintentionally, accidentally, or as a resulting state. Here, terputus means something like:

• gets cut off
• is interrupted
• becomes disconnected

So bekalan elektrik terputus means the electricity supply gets cut off / the power goes out.

This sounds natural because the power outage is not something the speaker causes directly.

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