Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang.

In Malay, dia is normally gender-neutral. It can mean he, she, or sometimes they in a very general singular sense, depending on context.

So Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang could mean:

• He doesn’t care about money
• She doesn’t care about money

If you need to make the gender clear, Malay usually adds context or uses a noun, such as:

• lelaki itu = that man
• perempuan itu = that woman

Malay has two main negatives, and they are used differently:

• tidak negates verbs and adjectives
• bukan negates nouns and noun phrases

Here, peduli is functioning like a verb meaning to care, so tidak is correct:

• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang = He/She does not care about money

Compare:

• Dia bukan doktor = He/She is not a doctor
  Here doktor is a noun, so bukan is used.

Peduli means to care, to be concerned, or to pay attention.

In this sentence, it means to care about something:

• tidak peduli mengenai wang = doesn’t care about money

A very common pattern is:

• tidak peduli = don’t care

So learners will often hear:

• Saya tidak peduli = I don’t care
• Dia tidak peduli = He/She doesn’t care

Depending on context, peduli can mean emotional concern or practical concern.

Yes. Mengenai and tentang can both mean about/regarding.

So these are both possible:

• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang
• Dia tidak peduli tentang wang

The difference is mostly one of style:

• mengenai often sounds a bit more formal or written
• tentang is very common and natural in everyday Malay

In casual speech, many speakers would probably prefer:

• Dia tak peduli tentang duit

Yes, wang means money, but it is a bit more formal or neutral.

A very common everyday word is duit:

• wang = money, somewhat more formal
• duit = money, everyday/common speech

So:

• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang sounds correct, but somewhat formal
• Dia tak peduli tentang duit sounds more conversational

Both are useful to know.

The sentence is correct, but it sounds a little formal because of tidak, mengenai, and wang.

A more everyday version would be:

• Dia tak peduli tentang duit

You might also hear:

• Dia tak kisah tentang duit = He/She doesn’t mind / doesn’t care about money

So the given sentence is good standard Malay, but not the most casual way people would usually say it in conversation.

That would usually sound unnatural in standard Malay.

With peduli, Malay often wants a connector like:

• tentang
• mengenai
• sometimes akan in more formal/literary style

So these are better:

• Dia tidak peduli tentang wang
• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang

Another option is to change the verb form:

• Dia tidak mempedulikan wang

That version does not need tentang or mengenai.

Good question. They are related, but the structure changes.

• peduli mengenai/tentang sesuatu = care about something
• mempedulikan sesuatu = care about something / pay attention to something

So:

• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang
• Dia tidak mempedulikan wang

Both can mean He/She doesn’t care about money.

However:

• peduli mengenai... sounds a bit more like care about/regarding
• mempedulikan... is more directly transitive, with money as the direct object

Both are grammatical, but tak peduli tentang duit is probably more common in everyday speech.

Malay word order here is straightforward:

• Dia = subject
• tidak = negation
• peduli = verb
• mengenai wang = prepositional phrase

So the pattern is basically:

Subject + negative + verb + about-phrase

This is very common in Malay:

• Saya tidak tahu = I do not know
• Mereka tidak suka kopi = They do not like coffee
• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang = He/She does not care about money

So tidak usually comes before the verb or adjective it negates.

Not explicitly. Malay generally does not mark tense the way English does.

So Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang can mean:

• He/She doesn’t care about money
• He/She is not caring about money
• sometimes even He/She didn’t care about money, if the context makes the time clear

Usually, time is understood from context or added with time words such as:

• sekarang = now
• dulu = before/in the past
• esok = tomorrow

Without a time word, the sentence is often understood as a general present statement.

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

So wang can mean:

• money in general
• the money, if the context makes it specific

In this sentence, the most natural reading is money in general:

• Dia tidak peduli mengenai wang = He/She doesn’t care about money

If you wanted to make it more specific, context usually does that, or you might add something like:

• wang itu = that money / the money

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• Dia ≈ dee-yah
• tidak ≈ tee-dah’
• peduli ≈ puh-doo-lee
• mengenai ≈ muh-nguh-nye
• wang ≈ roughly wahng

A few notes:

• e in Malay is often a schwa-like sound, similar to the a in about
• ng in wang is like the ng in sing
• In casual speech, tidak is often shortened to tak

So in natural conversation, you may hear:

• Dia tak peduli tentang duit

A few very useful alternatives are:

• Dia tak peduli tentang duit
  Very natural everyday version of the original sentence.

• Dia tak kisah tentang duit
  Tak kisah often means doesn’t mind / doesn’t care.

• Dia tidak mempedulikan wang
  More formal and structurally different, but still correct.

If your goal is everyday spoken Malay, the most useful version to remember is probably:

• Dia tak peduli tentang duit