Speak Malay Like a Local - Lesson 5: What, Why, Where, When, How and Who

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Today I share the pronunciation of some common interrogative words and how to use them in Malay.
Below are all the Malay words I used in this video if you want to double check the meaning.
1. What - Apa
2. Why - Kenapa (Informal) and Mengapa (Formal)
3. Where - Mana
4. When - Bila
5. How - Macam mana (informal) and Bagaimana (informal)
6. Who - Siapa
7. How much - Berapa
8. What time - Pukul berapa
9. He/She - Dia (Dia is completely gender neutral, so it's very normal to have to stop the conversation at some point to ask if a person is talking about a male or a female).
10. Go - Pergi (the pronunciation is to pretend the 'R' is not there, so it sounds like PE-GI. The 'E' in 'PE' is like the 'E' in the word 'Err'. The 'G' in 'GI' is like the 'G' in the word 'Go'. The 'I' in 'GI' in like the 'I' in 'Tick'.
11. You - Awak. There are many other variations of you in Malay like Kamu, Engkau, Kau. I will cover the differences in another video.
12. Want - Nak (which is the informal, short form of 'Hendak')
13. That - Tu (which is the informal, short form of 'Itu')
14. This - Ni (which is the informal, short form of 'Ini')
15. Do - Buat
16. Five - Lima (My next video will be about numbers)
Some credentials, I am Malay and I was born, raised and still live in Malaysia.
As usual, if you have any comments or any ideas on how to make my videos better for you, please feel free to comment! I'm all for improvements!
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Kiddai oh goodness, what a lovely comment! I'm so happy you find this helpful. Thank you so much for leaving this comment :D It makes me very happy!

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Glad you think I helped :D To be honest, once I started moving past the basics (Apa khabar, selamat pagi, makan etc), things got a lot harder. I'm really just making things up as I go along. Don't really know how to teach better other than providing pronunciations and literal translations.

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ur good enough tho. ur making its easy to be understood. frankly, i dont even think about 'mana' and those questions can put before and after the sentences doh. really its just very helpful since im in the uk ill just show this video to my friends.lel. *like im a proud malay now :)

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Haha tell me about it. My patriotism increased significantly when I went to the UK. Strange how things work.

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Just as a reminder, this is only for informal everyday use not suitable for taking exam.

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You're welcome! Sorry for the super late response. I'm happy my lessons are helping you :D

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Thank you Hao Chen! And thanks for subscribing :D Good to know there are people out there interested in learning Malay.

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You're welcome :D Hope it's going well!

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Great, good to know you find them helpful :D

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I'm from East Malaysia and commonly we will pronounce the word 'what' in Malay as APA and not APE

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That is variation in pronunciation, there are other variation such as apo and apair (sound like ar pair).

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great presentation, good information especially about formal/informal ways to say words. Thanks Lisse

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You're very welcome :D Happy my lessons are helping.

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If you come to the northern region of Malaysia such as Kedah, penang or perlis, u can use the formal pronounciation, because our dialect did not change the last letter from 'aah' to 'uuh'.

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Salut from Morocco, nak tanya about prefix and suffix, so confusing for me. tolong, explain more about that. tq. appreciate ur effort. thank u again. kasih..

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Hello! Yes I understand they are very confusing. Unfortunately, since I am not a proper Malay teacher (I don't have the proper qualifications and training), I cannot really help in that respect. But as far as conversational, informal Malay go, the use of prefixes and suffixes are minimal. The best I can do in the future is to make a video lightly covering the subject so people can understand how it transforms the meaning.

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Thank you for watching and commenting!

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thank you so much for this video miss sierra but I like to see more of your videos imissing the num 1 to 4 because I want to start from the beginning thank you hope you read my message

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For the Borneo peoples in Sabah, 'mana' is still mana, not ma-ne..

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Before learning sentence we need to learn every word otherwise is too hard and tough plz make videos on Malay word 88🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Thanks for sharing. If I am not wrong, putting the question (e.g. apa) behind the sentence is the original or formal malay language structure. Whereas, putting it in front is influences by English grammar. Correct me, if I am wrong.

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