Jangankan pergi ke pejabat, keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu kerana demam.

Jangankan is used to mean something like let alone, never mind, or not to mention.

In this sentence, it sets up a contrast:

• Jangankan pergi ke pejabat = Let alone going to the office
• The speaker then says something even smaller/easier is also impossible:
• keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu = I don't even want to leave the house

So the pattern is roughly:

Jangankan X, Y pun ...
= Let alone X, even Y ...

It emphasizes that if the bigger thing is out of the question, then the smaller thing certainly is too.

This is a very common Malay emphasis pattern.

It works like this:

• X = the more difficult / bigger action
• Y = the smaller / easier action

So:

• pergi ke pejabat = go to the office
• keluar rumah = leave the house

The speaker is saying:

• Forget going to the office
• I do not even want to leave the house

In English, we often reverse or reshape this idea, but in Malay this structure is very natural for emphasis.

Here, pun gives the meaning of even.

So:

• keluar rumah pun = even leaving the house
• Saya tidak mahu keluar rumah pun = I do not even want to leave the house

In this sentence, pun strengthens the idea that not even a very basic action is desired.

A useful way to think of it here is:

• pun = even / also / at all, depending on context

In this sentence, even is the best match.

Because Malay often omits repeated subjects when the meaning is clear from context.

The subject saya appears later:

• keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu

This clearly tells us that the same person is being talked about throughout the sentence.

So the full idea is understood as:

• Jangankan saya pergi ke pejabat, keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu...

But Malay commonly leaves out things that are obvious, especially in natural speech and writing.

In Malay, negation normally comes before the verb or adjective.

So:

• mahu = want
• tidak mahu = do not want

That is the normal order.

A few useful examples:

• saya mahu = I want
• saya tidak mahu = I do not want
• dia suka = he/she likes
• dia tidak suka = he/she does not like

So saya tidak mahu is the standard Malay word order.

Because tidak is used to negate verbs and adjectives, while bukan is usually used to negate nouns or make a contrast/correction.

Here, mahu is a verb-like word meaning want, so:

• tidak mahu = correct
• bukan mahu = usually not correct in this basic sense

Compare:

• Saya tidak mahu pergi. = I do not want to go.
• Itu bukan pejabat. = That is not an office.

So in this sentence, tidak is the right negator.

Demam means fever, and in context it often implies having a fever or being sick with a fever.

So:

• kerana demam = because of a fever / because I have a fever

Malay often leaves out words that English would normally include. It does not need to say:

• kerana saya demam

unless the speaker specifically wants to mention the subject again.

Both are possible, but kerana demam sounds natural because the subject is already understood.

Malay does not use articles like a, an, or the in the same way English does.

So:

• ke pejabat = to the office / to an office

The exact English article depends on context, but Malay does not usually mark that difference.

Here, because the meaning is specific, English naturally translates it as:

• to the office

Both can be possible, but they are slightly different in feel.

• keluar rumah is a very common compact expression meaning go out of the house / leave the house
• keluar dari rumah is more explicitly go out from the house

In everyday Malay, keluar rumah is very natural and common.

So in this sentence:

• keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu = I don't even want to leave the house

It sounds idiomatic and efficient.

Yes, in many everyday situations it could.

Compare:

• kerana demam
• sebab demam

Both can mean because of a fever / because I have a fever.

The difference is mainly register:

• kerana sounds a bit more formal or written
• sebab sounds more conversational

So this sentence with kerana is perfectly natural, especially in careful speech or writing.

It sounds mostly neutral to slightly formal, mainly because of kerana and the rhetorical structure with jangankan.

Parts of it are very common in speech:

• jangankan ... pun ...
• tidak mahu
• demam

If you changed kerana to sebab, it would sound a little more conversational:

• Jangankan pergi ke pejabat, keluar rumah pun saya tidak mahu sebab demam.

That version is very natural in everyday spoken Malay.

Only partly. A very literal gloss would be something like:

• Jangankan = let alone
• pergi ke pejabat = go to office
• keluar rumah pun = even leave house
• saya tidak mahu = I do not want
• kerana demam = because fever

But natural English would usually be:

• Let alone go to the office, I don’t even want to leave the house because I have a fever.

Or more smoothly:

• I have a fever, so let alone going to the office, I don’t even want to leave the house.

So yes, you can analyze it piece by piece, but a natural translation usually needs some reshaping.

Sometimes Malay can omit pergi when movement is obvious, but in this sentence pergi ke pejabat sounds clearer and more complete.

Compare:

• Saya pergi ke pejabat. = I go to the office.
• Saya ke pejabat. = I’m going to the office / I’m at the office contextually, depending on usage

In this sentence, keeping pergi helps clearly express the action:

• Jangankan pergi ke pejabat... = Let alone going to the office...

So the original version is the better choice.