Setelah latihan, saya menaruh sepatu dan tas di loker dekat lapangan.

Setelah latihan means after practice/training. It is a time expression, and in Indonesian it can naturally come at the beginning of the sentence to set the time frame.

So:

• Setelah latihan, saya menaruh... = After practice, I put...
• You could also say Saya menaruh sepatu dan tas di loker dekat lapangan setelah latihan, but putting the time phrase first often sounds very natural.

The comma after latihan helps separate the time phrase from the main clause.

Latihan usually means practice, training, or exercise, depending on context.

In this sentence, it most likely means:

• practice if talking about sports
• training if talking about a workout or organized session

Indonesian often relies on context, so latihan can cover several English words.

Indonesian does not normally use articles like a, an, or the the way English does.

So:

• di loker can mean in a locker or in the locker
• dekat lapangan can mean near a field or near the field

The exact meaning depends on context. This is very normal in Indonesian.

Menaruh means to put, to place, or to set down.

It is very similar to meletakkan, which also means to put/place. In many everyday situations, they are interchangeable.

For example:

• Saya menaruh tas di meja. = I put my bag on the table.
• Saya meletakkan tas di meja. = I put my bag on the table.

Sometimes meletakkan can sound a little more formal or deliberate, while menaruh is very common in everyday speech.

Taruh is the base/root form.
Menaruh is the active verb form with the meN- prefix.

This is very common in Indonesian:

• root: taruh
• active verb: menaruh

In a normal sentence with a clear subject doing the action, Indonesian often uses the meN- form:

• Saya menaruh sepatu... = I put the shoes...

You may hear taruh in casual speech, especially in commands or informal conversation:

• Taruh di sini. = Put it here.

But in standard written Indonesian, menaruh is the expected form here.

In Indonesian, nouns do not have to change form for singular or plural.

So sepatu can mean:

• shoe
• shoes

Context tells you which meaning is intended. In this sentence, English naturally uses shoes, but Indonesian still just says sepatu.

If you really want to emphasize plurality, Indonesian can use reduplication:

• sepatu-sepatu

But that is not necessary here, and in fact it would sound less natural in this sentence.

Yes, tas is a general word for bag.

Depending on context, it could refer to:

• a backpack
• a gym bag
• a handbag
• a school bag

Indonesian often uses broad words where English might choose a more specific one.

Di is a preposition meaning in, at, or on, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• di loker = in the locker
• dekat lapangan = near the field/court

A very important beginner point:
di as a preposition is written separately from the noun:

• di loker
• di rumah
• di sekolah

This is different from di- as a verb prefix, which is attached to the verb.

Both can be possible, but they work slightly differently.

In this sentence:

• di loker dekat lapangan means in the locker near the field

Here dekat lapangan describes loker. It tells you which locker.

You could also say:

• di loker yang dekat lapangan = in the locker that is near the field

That is more explicit.

If you say di dekat lapangan, that usually means near the field as a location by itself, not necessarily describing the locker as directly.

So in this sentence, loker dekat lapangan is a compact noun phrase: the locker near the field.

Lapangan usually means an open area used for sports or activities, such as:

• field
• court
• sports ground

The best English translation depends on context.
If this is about soccer, field may fit.
If it is basketball or tennis, court may be better.

Indonesian uses lapangan quite broadly.

Indonesian word order here is very similar to English:

• saya = subject
• menaruh = verb
• sepatu dan tas = object
• di loker dekat lapangan = place/location

So the structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object + Place

That is why the sentence is:

• Saya menaruh sepatu dan tas di loker dekat lapangan.

This is one of the reasons Indonesian sentence structure often feels approachable to English speakers.

Yes, but the tone changes.

• saya is neutral and polite
• aku is more informal and personal

So:

• Setelah latihan, saya menaruh... sounds standard and appropriate in many situations
• Setelah latihan, aku menaruh... sounds more casual

Both are grammatically correct. The choice depends on the relationship and setting.

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

So menaruh itself does not specifically mean put, puts, or will put. The time is understood from context.

Here, because of setelah latihan, the sentence is naturally understood as something that happened after practice, so in English we translate it as past:

• After practice, I put my shoes and bag in the locker near the field.

If needed, Indonesian can add time words like:

• tadi = earlier / just now
• kemarin = yesterday
• sudah = already

But they are not required in every sentence.

Yes. That is a very good natural English translation too.

Because Indonesian does not mark definiteness the same way English does, di loker dekat lapangan can be interpreted as:

• in the locker near the field
• into a locker near the field

The exact English choice depends on context and the translation style.