Kami berdua pergi ke pusat pengambilan.

In Malay, both kami and kita can mean we, but they are different:

• kami = we, not including the listener
• kita = we, including the listener

So Kami berdua pergi ke pusat pengambilan means the speaker and one other person went, but the person being spoken to was not part of that group.

Berdua means the two of us or as a pair.

So kami berdua means the two of us.
It adds the idea that the group consists of exactly two people.

Without berdua, kami pergi ke pusat pengambilan would simply mean we went to the collection/pickup center, without saying how many people were involved.

This pattern is common:

• kami berdua = the two of us
• mereka bertiga = the three of them
• kita berempat = the four of us

Yes. Kami berdua is the natural and standard way to say the two of us.

Dua orang kami is not the usual structure for this meaning. Malay normally uses pronoun + ber- + number for expressions like this:

• kami berdua = the two of us
• mereka bertiga = the three of them

So for a learner, kami berdua is the form to remember.

Malay verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.
So pergi can mean go, went, or sometimes will go, depending on context.

In this sentence, the translation may be went, but that past meaning comes from context, not from a special past-tense verb form.

If you want to make time clearer, Malay often adds time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• tadi = earlier
• esok = tomorrow
• sudah = already
• akan = will

For example:

• Kami berdua sudah pergi ke pusat pengambilan. = We both already went to the pickup center.
• Kami berdua akan pergi ke pusat pengambilan. = The two of us will go to the pickup center.

Ke is a preposition meaning to or toward a place.

Since pergi involves movement, Malay uses ke:

• pergi ke sekolah = go to school
• pergi ke rumah = go home/to the house
• pergi ke pusat pengambilan = go to the pickup center

This is different from di, which marks location:

• di sekolah = at school
• di rumah = at home
• di pusat pengambilan = at the pickup center

So:

• pergi ke... = movement to a place
• berada di... / ada di... = being at a place

It is a noun phrase.

• pusat = center
• pengambilan = collection, pickup, retrieval, intake, depending on context

So pusat pengambilan literally means something like collection center or pickup center.

Malay often puts nouns together this way, where the second noun describes the first:

• stesen bas = bus station
• bilik mesyuarat = meeting room
• pusat pengambilan = collection/pickup center

Pengambilan comes from the root ambil, which means take.

Malay uses affixes to build nouns from verbs. Here:

• root: ambil = take
• peng-...-an added around it → pengambilan

This often creates a noun referring to:

• the act/process
• the system
• the event
• sometimes the place or function, depending on context

So pengambilan can mean things like:

• collection
• pickup
• taking
• retrieval
• intake

The exact English translation depends on the situation.

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

So pusat pengambilan can mean:

• a pickup center
• the pickup center

Context tells you which one is intended.

This is very normal in Malay. For example:

• Saya beli buku. = I bought a book / the book
• Dia pergi ke sekolah. = He/She goes to school / to the school

English requires articles much more often than Malay does.

Yes. The sentence follows a very normal Malay pattern:

Subject + detail + verb + prepositional phrase

• Kami berdua = subject
• pergi = verb
• ke pusat pengambilan = destination

Malay word order is often similar to English in simple sentences:

• Saya makan nasi. = I eat rice.
• Mereka pergi ke kedai. = They go to the shop.
• Kami berdua pergi ke pusat pengambilan. = The two of us went to the pickup center.

Yes, that is possible, but the emphasis changes slightly.

• Kami berdua pergi ke pusat pengambilan emphasizes who went: the two of us
• Kami pergi berdua ke pusat pengambilan emphasizes how the action was done: we went as a pair / the two of us went together

Both are understandable and natural, but kami berdua is often the clearer way to express the two of us as the subject.

A helpful rough guide is:

pe-ngam-bi-lan

A few points:

• ng is like the sound in sing
• ambil sounds roughly like am-bil
• the final -an is pronounced clearly, not reduced like English weak endings

A rough English-friendly approximation might be: puh-ngam-bee-lahn

But it is best to listen to native audio if possible, because Malay pronunciation is generally more consistent and cleaner than English spelling suggests.