Fakulti mana awak mahu masuk?

Which faculty do you want to enter?

Breakdown of Fakulti mana awak mahu masuk?

• awak: you
• mahu: to want
• masuk: to enter
• fakulti: the faculty

Questions & Answers about Fakulti mana awak mahu masuk?

Why is mana placed after fakulti instead of at the beginning, like Which faculty in English?

In Malay, question words often stay in the position where the answer would normally go. So:

• fakulti mana = which faculty
• literally: faculty which

This is very normal in Malay. So Fakulti mana awak mahu masuk? is the natural word order.

English moves which to the front, but Malay usually does not.

What exactly does mana mean here?

Here, mana means which.

In Malay, mana can be used in several ways depending on context:

• di mana = where
• yang mana = which one
• fakulti mana = which faculty

So in this sentence, mana is not where. It is specifically asking the listener to choose from a set of faculties.

Could I also say Fakulti apa awak mahu masuk?