By the end of it, you’ll have taken a great leap toward using Indonesian verbs with ease. In this article, you’ll learn more about what this means and how to form the main English tenses in Indonesian. Luckily for you, there are no real tenses in Indonesian to worry about. This makes it crucial to pay special attention to verbs when learning a foreign language. Generally, no sentence is complete without a verb. They are the words we use to describe an action ( menyanyikan – to sing), a state of being ( hidup – to exist), or an occurrence ( mengembangkan – to develop), and they usually have to agree with a subject, which is who or what performs the action described. Like nouns, verbs are an essential part of all sentences.