Fokus Tatabahasa The following table shows four most very common tenses in Malay. You can see that to form the present continuous, future and past, you must take the basic verb form used in the simplre present and add a helping verb (‘kata bantu’). Try to familiarise yourself with these helping verbs. If you can recognise them they will help you work out which tense is being used. You will learn more about tenses in future units. Tense
Helping word
Verb
Example Saya makan nasi. I eat rice. Dia sedang makan nasi. She is eating rice. Saya akan makan nasi di restoran. I will eat rice at the restaurant. Dia telah makan roti. She ate bread. Dia sudah makan nasi. She has eaten rice.
Simple present tense Present continous tense
Usually written with verb only, without helping word sedang, masih
makan to eat sedang makan is eating
Future tense
akan, hendak, mahu
akan makan will eat
Past tense
sudah, telah
telah makan ate sudah makan has eaten
Pilih kata bantu yang sesuai untuk tempat kosong di bawah. hadapan. 2. Sarah _______________ (hendak/masih) membersihkan dapur sejak pagi tadi. 3. Ibu _______________ (akan/sedang) berehat di ruang tamu apabila saya masuk. 4. Kakak _______________ (sedang/akan) menjemur kain apabila hujan turun dengan lebat. 5. Kamal sangat gembira kerana peperiksaan akhir tahun _______________ (akan/masih) tamat dua hari lagi. 6. Keluarga itu _______________ (hendak/masih) tinggal di situ sejak 1980. 7. Emak _______________ (sedang/akan) menjahit baju, apabila adik terjatuh dari kerusi. 8. Mereka _______________ (sedang/akan) menonton televisyen apabila bekalan elektrik terputus.
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1. Rumah itu _______________ (telah/akan) siap dibina pada minggu
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