Wasit memberi kartu kuning kepada pemain yang curang.

In Indonesian, a noun usually comes before the word that describes it. So:

• kartu = card
• kuning = yellow

That gives kartu kuning = yellow card.

This is a very common pattern in Indonesian:

• rumah besar = big house
• mobil merah = red car

Memberi means to give. In this sentence, wasit memberi kartu kuning... means the referee gave / gives a yellow card...

The base word is beri = give.
The prefix meN- makes it into an active verb: memberi.

Kepada means to when marking the recipient of an action, especially with verbs like give.

So:

• memberi kartu kuning kepada pemain = give a yellow card to the player

It helps show clearly who receives the card.

Sometimes, yes, but kepada makes the sentence clearer and more formal.

For example, Indonesian can also use a double-object style:

• Wasit memberi pemain kartu kuning.

This also means The referee gave the player a yellow card.

But kepada is very common in careful, standard Indonesian, especially when you want to clearly mark the recipient.

Pemain means player. It comes from the root main = play.

So:

• main = to play
• pemain = player

In this sentence, pemain refers to the player who received the yellow card.

Yang introduces a relative clause. In English, this is often translated as who, that, or which.

So:

• pemain yang curang = the player who cheated / the dishonest player

It connects pemain with the description curang.

Curang means dishonest, unfair, or cheating. In a sports context, it usually means cheating or playing unfairly.

So pemain yang curang can mean:

• the player who cheated
• the dishonest player
• the player who was playing unfairly

It describes pemain. So the structure is:

• kepada pemain yang curang
• to the player who was cheating

Because yang curang comes right after pemain, it naturally modifies pemain, not wasit or kartu kuning.

Indonesian nouns do not automatically show singular or plural the way English nouns often do. So pemain can mean player or players, depending on context.

In this sentence, it is usually understood as player because the sentence sounds like one referee giving one yellow card to one player. But without more context, Indonesian does not force the singular/plural distinction as strongly as English does.

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

So:

• wasit can mean a referee or the referee
• pemain can mean a player or the player

The exact meaning depends on context.

Yes. Indonesian verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So memberi by itself can mean:

• gives
• is giving
• gave
• has given

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

• kemarin = yesterday
• tadi = earlier
• sekarang = now

So this sentence could be present or past depending on the situation.

Both memberi and memberikan can be translated as to give, but they are used a little differently.

• memberi often focuses on the recipient
• memberikan often focuses on the thing being given

In this sentence, memberi kartu kuning kepada pemain is completely natural.

You could also say:

• Wasit memberikan kartu kuning kepada pemain yang curang.

That is also correct and natural.

Yes, it is natural and correct. It sounds like standard written or spoken Indonesian.

A very close English structure would be:

• The referee gave a yellow card to the player who cheated.

So this is a good example of normal Indonesian word order and grammar.