Dadah menjejaskan kesihatan.

to affect

Breakdown of Dadah menjejaskan kesihatan.

• kesihatan: the health
• dadah: illegal drugs

Questions & Answers about Dadah menjejaskan kesihatan.

What does dadah mean here? Does it mean medicine?

In this sentence, dadah means drugs, usually in the sense of narcotics or illegal/harmful drugs.

It normally does not mean medicine in everyday Malay. For medicine, Malay usually uses ubat.

So:

• dadah = drugs, especially harmful/illegal drugs
• ubat = medicine

What does menjejaskan mean exactly?

Menjejaskan means to negatively affect, to harm, or to impair.

In Dadah menjejaskan kesihatan, it means that drugs have a bad effect on health.

It is a little broader than just destroy. It can mean:

• harm
• damage
• adversely affect
• impair

So the sentence is not saying health is completely ruined, only that it is harmed or affected badly.

Why is the word order Dadah menjejaskan kesihatan?