Selepas itu, saya singgah di kedai dan membeli telur, roti, dan kicap.

Selepas itu means after that or afterwards. It is a very common way to show sequence in a story or description.

It helps the listener understand that this action happened next, after some earlier event.

You will also see similar time-sequencing expressions such as:

• Kemudian = then
• Seterusnya = next
• Lepas itu = after that, then
  
  • This is a very common, slightly less formal spoken version of selepas itu.

Singgah means to stop by, drop in, or stop somewhere briefly, usually on the way to somewhere else or for a short purpose.

So:

• pergi ke kedai = go to the shop
• singgah di kedai = stop by the shop

Singgah gives the idea that the visit is not long or is just one part of a larger trip.

This is a very common learner question.

In Malay:

• di is usually used for location: at / in / on
• ke is usually used for movement toward a destination: to

With singgah, Malay often treats the shop as the place where the stop happens, so singgah di kedai is natural: stop by at the shop.

By contrast:

• pergi ke kedai = go to the shop
• ada di kedai = be at the shop
• singgah di kedai = stop by at the shop

So even though English says stop by the shop, Malay commonly uses di here.

Because the subject is already understood.

The sentence is:

• saya singgah di kedai dan membeli telur, roti, dan kicap

The subject saya applies to both verbs:

• saya singgah
• (saya) membeli

Malay often leaves out the repeated subject when it is clearly the same person doing both actions.

In full, you could say:

• Selepas itu, saya singgah di kedai dan saya membeli telur, roti, dan kicap.

But that sounds less smooth and more repetitive.

Membeli is the standard meN- verb form of beli.

• beli = buy
• membeli = to buy / buys / bought, in a more standard grammatical form

In careful written Malay, transitive verbs often appear with meN-:

• makan can stay makan
• baca becomes membaca
• beli becomes membeli

In everyday speech, people often drop the prefix and simply say:

• saya singgah di kedai dan beli telur...

That sounds natural in conversation, but membeli is more standard in writing.

Not explicitly. Malay verbs do not change form the way English verbs do for past tense.

So singgah and membeli do not themselves mean past tense in the same way stopped and bought do in English.

The past meaning comes from context, especially from:

• Selepas itu = after that
• the flow of narration

If needed, Malay can add time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• tadi = earlier / just now
• sudah / telah = already

But this sentence works perfectly well without them.

Malay often does not mark plural nouns unless it is necessary.

So:

• telur can mean egg or eggs
• roti can mean bread or some bread
• kicap can mean soy sauce

The exact number or amount usually comes from context.

If Malay wants to make plurality very explicit, it can use reduplication:

• telur-telur = eggs
• buku-buku = books

But in normal sentences, this is often unnecessary. In a shopping sentence like this, bare nouns are completely natural.

Malay does not use articles in the same way English does.

So where English might say:

• the shop
• some eggs
• a loaf of bread

Malay can simply say:

• kedai
• telur
• roti

If the speaker wants to be more specific, Malay can add other words, but it usually does not need articles.

For example:

• kedai itu = that shop / the shop
• sebiji telur = one egg
• sedikit kicap = a little soy sauce

In your sentence, the nouns are left general, which is normal.

Yes. Dan means and, and it can connect many kinds of things:

• nouns: telur, roti, dan kicap
• verbs: singgah ... dan membeli ...
• clauses or larger phrases

So in this sentence, dan first links two actions:

• stop by the shop
• buy eggs, bread, and soy sauce

Then later it also links the final items in the list.

This is completely normal Malay sentence structure.

Not always.

In Malay lists, many writers would write:

• telur, roti dan kicap

without a comma before dan.

Your sentence has:

• telur, roti, dan kicap

This is also understandable, and some writers use this style, especially under the influence of English punctuation habits.

So for learners, the safest thing to know is:

• telur, roti dan kicap = very common
• telur, roti, dan kicap = also seen, but style may vary

Kicap means soy sauce.

There are also more specific types, for example:

• kicap manis = sweet soy sauce
• kicap masin = salty soy sauce
• kicap cair = thin/light soy sauce
• kicap pekat = thick soy sauce

So if the sentence just says kicap, it usually means soy sauce in a general sense.

A learner might try that because English uses to in go to the shop, but with singgah, di kedai is the more natural choice.

So:

• saya pergi ke kedai = I went to the shop
• saya singgah di kedai = I stopped by the shop

Using ke after singgah is much less natural in standard usage here. For this sentence, di kedai is the form to remember.

Yes. In everyday speech, a speaker might say something like:

• Lepas tu, saya singgah kat kedai dan beli telur, roti, dengan kicap.

Compared with the original:

• Selepas itu → Lepas tu
• di → kat in casual speech
• membeli → beli
• sometimes dan → dengan in casual listing, depending on region and speech style

The original sentence is more standard and suitable for careful written Malay. The casual version is very common in conversation.