Indonesian Verbs

This page contains a table including the following: Indonesian/ Bahasa Verbs and tenses. Try to memorize the way they're used because they're very important in communication, and might be very helpful to convey your most important expressions. Make sure to check our Learn Indonesian page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.

A verb in Indonesian is just like English used as a word that represents an action or a state of being. (go, strike, travel, and exist are examples of verbs). A verb is the essential part of the predicate of a sentence. The grammatical forms of verbs include number, person, and tense.

As you can see, the table above shows the Indonesian verbs in the present tense, the past tense, and the future tense, and also as a question (interrogative form).

Present Tense in Indonesian

The present tense in Indonesian is the form of the verb that may be used to express: action at the present, a state of being; an occurrence in the (very) near future; or an action that occurred in the past and continues up to the present. Here is an example:

Past Tense in Indonesian

The past tense in Indonesian is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past of the current moment (in an absolute tense system), or prior to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future (in a relative tense system). Here is an example:

Future Tense in Indonesian

In Indonesian, the future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future (in an absolute tense term), or to happen subsequent to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future (in a relative tense term). Here is an example:

Below is a vocabulary training for verbs in Indonesian or Bahasa with its pronunciation, try to memorize the verbs below, because they’re very important and used daily.

I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some Indonesian Verbs (Bahasa) such as present tense, past tense, and future tense..., try to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation. Make sure to check our Learn Indonesian page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.