Pengadil bercakap dengan penjaga gol dan lawan.

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

So:

• pengadil = referee / the referee / a referee
• penjaga gol = goalkeeper / the goalkeeper / a goalkeeper
• lawan = opponent / the opponent / an opponent

The exact meaning depends on context. In English, you must choose the or a, but in Malay you often do not.

Bercakap means to speak or to talk.

The root word is cakap, which relates to speaking. The prefix ber- often makes a verb that means doing something or being engaged in something.

So:

• cakap = speech / talk / speak
• bercakap = to speak, to talk

In this sentence, bercakap is the main verb: The referee speaks/is speaking/talked/will talk, depending on context.

Dengan usually means with.

In bercakap dengan, it means to speak with or to talk to someone.

So:

• bercakap dengan penjaga gol = speak with the goalkeeper
• bercakap dengan penjaga gol dan lawan = speak with the goalkeeper and the opponent

In natural English, speak with and speak to can both fit, but Malay uses dengan very commonly in this pattern.

Sometimes, yes, but the meaning shifts slightly.

• bercakap dengan = speak with someone, often sounding more like a two-way interaction
• bercakap kepada = speak to someone, often sounding more one-way or more formal

So this sentence with dengan suggests the referee is talking with those people, not just addressing them.

Malay verbs usually do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So bercakap can mean:

• speaks
• is speaking
• spoke
• was speaking
• will speak

The time is usually understood from context or from time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• sekarang = now
• esok = tomorrow

If you want to make the ongoing meaning clearer, you can say:

• Pengadil sedang bercakap dengan penjaga gol dan lawan. = The referee is talking with the goalkeeper and the opponent.

Pengadil usually means referee, judge, or arbiter, depending on context.

In a sports sentence like this, it most naturally means referee.

It comes from the root adil, meaning fair or just, so pengadil is someone who judges fairly.

Because it is a noun phrase made of two parts:

• penjaga = keeper / guard
• gol = goal

So penjaga gol literally means goal keeper, which corresponds to English goalkeeper.

Malay often writes this kind of expression as two separate words, even when English uses one word.

Yes, lawan can have different meanings depending on context.

Here, after dan, it is being used as a noun, so it means opponent.

Some other uses are:

• lawan = opponent
• melawan = to fight, oppose, resist
• lawan in some contexts can also relate to against

In this sentence, pengadil bercakap dengan penjaga gol dan lawan, the structure makes lawan a noun coordinated with penjaga gol.

Yes. Dan means and, so the sentence means the referee is talking with:

• penjaga gol = the goalkeeper
• lawan = the opponent

Malay does not need to repeat dengan before the second noun. English works similarly:

• with the goalkeeper and the opponent

If you repeated it, it would still be understandable, but it is not necessary.

Malay nouns usually do not change form for singular vs. plural.

So lawan can mean:

• opponent
• opponents

Context tells you which is intended. In this sentence, many learners will naturally read it as singular because it refers to one goalkeeper and one opponent, but Malay itself does not force that distinction as clearly as English does.

If you really wanted to emphasize plural, Malay could use context or reduplication in some situations, but that is not done here.

Broadly, yes. The pattern is:

• Pengadil = subject
• bercakap = verb
• dengan penjaga gol dan lawan = prepositional phrase

So the structure is roughly:

Subject + Verb + with + Noun(s)

That makes this sentence fairly straightforward for an English speaker. The main differences are not word order, but things like:

• no articles
• no tense marking on the verb
• some vocabulary being built differently, such as penjaga gol