Saya ikut rapat sekolah besok pagi.

I will join the school meeting tomorrow morning.

Breakdown of Saya ikut rapat sekolah besok pagi.

• saya: I
• besok pagi: tomorrow morning
• ikut: to join
• rapat sekolah: the school meeting

Questions & Answers about Saya ikut rapat sekolah besok pagi.

What exactly does ikut mean in this sentence? Is it “join”, “go”, or “attend”?

Ikut literally means “to follow / to join in”.

In this sentence, Saya ikut rapat sekolah besok pagi is best translated as “I will attend the school meeting tomorrow morning” or “I’m going to join the school meeting tomorrow morning.”

Compared with other verbs:

• ikut rapat = to join / attend a meeting (neutral, very common)
• menghadiri rapat = to attend a meeting (more formal/written)
• datang ke rapat = to come to the meeting (focus on coming, not on participation)

So ikut focuses on joining in an activity that is already planned or organized.

Why is there no word like “will” (e.g., akan) to show the future?

Indonesian often does not use a separate word for the future if the time is already clear from context or from a time expression.

Here, besok pagi (“tomorrow morning”) already shows that the action is in the future, so akan is not necessary.

You can say:

• Saya akan ikut rapat sekolah besok pagi.

This is still correct. Akan just makes the future sense a bit more explicit, but it doesn’t change the basic meaning. In everyday speech, people often drop akan when there’s a clear time word like besok, nanti, lusa, minggu depan, etc.

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