future tense - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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future tense (plural future tenses)
- (grammar) The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future.
1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 157:
The future tense came into being as the verbs sculan and willan lost their ancient power as finite verbs and turned into future auxiliaries.
time form of a verb
- Afrikaans: toekomende tyd
- Albanian: kohë e ardhme f, koha e ardhme f (definite)
- Arabic: مُسْتَقْبَل m (mustaqbal)
- Armenian: ապառնի (hy) (apaṙni), ապառնի ժամանակ (hy) (apaṙni žamanak)
- Azerbaijani: gələcək zaman
- Bashkir: киләсәк заман (kiləsək zaman)
- Belarusian: бу́дучы час m (búdučy čas)
- Bengali: ভবিষ্যৎ কাল (bhobiśśot kal)
- Bulgarian: бъ́деще вре́ме n (bǎ́dešte vréme)
- Carpathian Rusyn: будучій час m (budučij čas)
- Catalan: futur (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: пулас вӑхӑт (pulas văh̬ăt)
- Crimean Tatar: kelecek zaman
- Czech: budoucí čas m
- Danish: fremtid (da) c, futurum n
- Dutch: toekomende tijd (nl) m, onvoltooid toekomstige tijd m, futurum (nl) n
- Esperanto: futuro (eo)
- Estonian: tulevik (et)
- Faroese: framtíð f
- Finnish: futuuri (fi), tuleva aika (fi)
- French: futur (fr) m, futur simple (fr) m
- Galician: futuro (gl) m
- Georgian: მომავალი (momavali), მყოფადი (mq̇opadi)
- German: Futur (de) n, Zukunft (de) f
- Greek: μέλλοντας (el) m (méllontas), μέλλων (el) m (méllon)
- Hebrew: עָתִיד (he) m (atíd)
- Hindi: भविष्यकाल m (bhaviṣyakāl), भविष्य (hi) m (bhaviṣya)
- Hungarian: jövő idő (hu)
- Indonesian: kala mendatang
- Irish: an aimsir fháistineach f, fáistineach m
- Italian: futuro (it) m, futuro semplice (it) m (referring to an action, a state, ... which is expected will be in progress or not yet started at the future time of reference), futuro anteriore (it) m (future perfect tense; referring to an action, a state, ... which is expected that will be finished/ended/completed at the future time of reference)
- Japanese: 未来時制 (みらいじせい, mirai jisei), 未来形 (みらいけい, miraikei), 未来 (ja) (みらい, mirai)
- Kalmyk: ирх цаг (irx tsag)
- Kazakh: келер шақ (keler şaq)
- Khmer: អនាគតកាល (ʼaʼnaakŭət kaal)
- Korean: 미래시제(未來時制) (miraesije)
- Kumyk: гележек заман (gelejek zaman)
- Kyrgyz: келер чак (keler cak)
- Latin: tempus futūrum n, futūrum (la) n
- Latvian: nākotnes laiks m
- Lithuanian: būsimasis laikas (lt) m
- Macedonian: идно време n (idno vreme)
- Malay: kala kelak
- Malayalam: ഭാവി കാലം (bhāvi kālaṁ)
- Maori: wāheke
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ирээдүй цаг (ireedüj cag)
- Navajo: tʼahígo
- Nogai: келеек заман (keleyek zaman)
- Norman: futur m
- Norwegian:
- Old English: tōweard tīd f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: آیَنْدِه (âyande), زَمانِ آیَنْدِه (zamân-e âyande), مُسْتَقْبَل (mostağbal)
- Polish: czas przyszły (pl) m
- Portuguese: futuro (pt) m
- Romanian: timp viitor n
- Russian: бу́дущее вре́мя (ru) n (búduščeje vrémja)
- Scottish Gaelic: tràth teachdail m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: budúci čas m
- Slovene: prihodnjik m
- Southern Altai: келер ӧй (keler öy)
- Spanish: futuro (es) m, tiempo futuro m
- Swedish: futurum (sv) n
- Tagalog: panghinaharap, magaganap
- Tajik: оянда (tg) (oyanda), замони оянда (zamon-i oyanda), мустақбал (mustaqbal)
- Tatar: киләчәк заман (kiläçäk zaman)
- Telugu: భవిష్యత్కాలము (te) (bhaviṣyatkālamu)
- Thai: อนาคตกาล (à-naa-kót-dtà-gaan)
- Turkish: gelecek zaman (tr)
- Turkmen: geljek zaman
- Tuvan: келир үе (kelir üe)
- Udmurt: вуоно дыр (vuono dyr)
- Ukrainian: майбу́тній час (uk) m (majbútnij čas)
- Urdu: مُسْتَقْبِل m (mustaqbil), اِسْتِقْبال m (istiqbāl)
- Uzbek: kelasi zamon
- Vietnamese: thì tương lai
- Yakut: кэлэр кэм (keler kem)