No. 455 in Malay

balas

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In a sentence

Kawan saya balas emel saya dengan segera.
My friend replied to my email promptly.
In this sentence, 'balas' is used to mean 'to reply' or 'to respond' (conveying the action of responding to a message).
Dia berjanji untuk balas jasa baik saya suatu hari nanti.
She promised to repay my kindness one day.
Here, 'balas' implies 'to repay' or 'to reciprocate' (conveying a sense of returning a favor or action).
Tembakan balas tentera menyebabkan musuh berundur.
The soldiers' retaliatory fire caused the enemy to retreat.
In this usage, 'balas' means 'retaliatory' or 'answering back' in the context of an action or response to an aggression.

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