Setelah membayar tunai, kasir memberikan uang receh sebagai kembalian.

Setelah means after. It introduces a time clause:

Setelah membayar tunai = After paying in cash

So the sentence begins by telling you when the main action happened.

Membayar is the standard active verb form meaning to pay / paying.

• root: bayar = pay
• active verb: membayar = to pay

In formal or neutral written Indonesian, membayar sounds more natural here.
Bayar by itself is often more informal, and it can also sound like a command depending on context.

Indonesian often leaves out the subject when it is already understood from context.

So:

Setelah membayar tunai
literally = After paying in cash

It does not explicitly say who paid. The listener understands that it was the customer or the person being talked about.

English usually prefers a subject, but Indonesian is much more comfortable omitting it.

Tunai means cash or in cash.

So:

membayar tunai = to pay in cash

It contrasts with other payment methods such as:

• kartu = card
• transfer = bank transfer
• kredit = credit

In Indonesian, tunai can act a bit like an adjective or adverb depending on context.

Kasir means cashier.

It is not gender-specific. It can refer to a male cashier or a female cashier.

Also, Indonesian does not use articles like a or the, so kasir can mean:

• a cashier
• the cashier

The context tells you which one is meant.

Memberikan means to give or to provide.

It comes from:

• root: beri = give
• active form with suffix: memberikan

In this sentence:

kasir memberikan uang receh
= the cashier gave small change

A helpful nuance:

• memberi often focuses more naturally on the recipient
• memberikan often sounds more focused on the thing being given

That said, both can work in many situations. For example:

Kasir memberi uang receh sebagai kembalian
is also possible.

Uang receh means small change, especially coins or low-value money.

Literally:

• uang = money
• receh = small change / trivial amount

Depending on context, uang receh may mean:

• coins
• a few small-denomination notes
• loose change in general

In this sentence, it refers to the small amount returned after paying.

Because Indonesian nouns usually do not have to show singular vs. plural.

So uang receh can mean:

• a coin / some small change
• coins / small coins

If the speaker wants to emphasize plurality, they can use reduplication or another clue, but often context is enough.

This is very normal in Indonesian.

Sebagai means as or in the role of.

Kembalian here means change in the shopping/payment sense.

So:

sebagai kembalian = as change

The phrase explains the function of the uang receh: the cashier gave it as the customer’s change.

Yes.

• kembali = to return / back / again
• kembalian = something returned

In shopping contexts, kembalian means change, because it is money given back to the customer.

So the word has the idea of returning something.

A little, yes. The structure is:

Setelah membayar tunai, kasir memberikan uang receh sebagai kembalian.

You can break it down like this:

• Setelah membayar tunai = after paying in cash
• kasir = the cashier
• memberikan = gave
• uang receh = small change
• sebagai kembalian = as change

So the pattern is:

time clause + subject + verb + object + function/purpose phrase

That is very natural in Indonesian.

Yes. Some natural alternatives are:

• Setelah membayar tunai, kasir memberi uang receh sebagai kembalian.
• Setelah membayar tunai, saya menerima uang receh sebagai kembalian.
• Kasir memberikan uang receh sebagai kembalian setelah saya membayar tunai.

These versions shift the style or focus slightly, but the basic meaning stays the same.