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tolong bahasa Malaysia nahu sila
Helo.

saya struggle with sila, are SEMUA words spoken backwards?

Example: Go into house for water, should be said as "water for house go into"?

It is susah to learn semua words, even in bahasa inggris I tidak boleh speak backwards!

Is everything I say meant to be spoken backwards or only certain sections?

???

terima kashi

Alan

Language pair: English; Malay (Bahasa Malaysia)

biggles
December 2, 2003

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Re:tolong bahasa Malaysia nahu sila
No, not everything is backwards. For example, you put prepositios like 'for' before the noun or pronoun like in English (kepada saya - for me), unlike some languages like Hindi & Japanese where they come after and are called postpositions. It's mainly adjectives (bagus) and demonstratives (ini/itu) that come after.
Regards, Brad

Language pair: English; Malay (Bahasa Malaysia)
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David
December 5, 2003

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