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Questions & Answers about Sesuaikan rancangan ini.
What exactly does sesuaikan mean here?
Sesuaikan means adapt, adjust, or modify so that something becomes suitable.
So in this sentence, it tells someone to make this plan fit the situation better.
It comes from sesuai, which means suitable, appropriate, or in accordance with.
Why is it sesuaikan and not just sesuai?
Because sesuai by itself is usually not the form you use to mean adjust something.
- sesuai = suitable / appropriate
- sesuaikan = make something suitable, adapt something
The suffix -kan often gives a word a causative or transitive sense, so here it turns the idea of being suitable into making something suitable.
Is Sesuaikan rancangan ini a command?
Yes. It is an imperative sentence, meaning a command or instruction:
- Sesuaikan rancangan ini. = Adapt this plan.
Malay often makes commands by using the verb directly, without a subject.
Why is there no word for you in the sentence?