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Auxiliary verbs are words used to describe verbs in verb phrases, usually to mark modes, times, or aspects. By using a comparative descriptive method, this study describes and compares auxiliary verbs in English and Indonesian based on structure and meaning. Data taken from Mark Twains The adventures of Huckleberry Finn novel and its translation The Djokolelonos Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The results showed that auxiliary verbs in English and Indonesian have the same function as a marker of syntactic relationships between subjects and predication so that these verbs are often called operators. Semantic verbs can provide additional distinctive meanings such as ability, necessity and possibility.