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In English, as in most Germanic languages, there is no future tense in the sense of a specific inflection that marks a verb for futurity after the fashion of the markers that appear in the preterite forms of the past tense. Rather, the future tense is marked by the use of a number of auxiliary verbs.
The verb shall formerly appeared as a future tense marker. It is now obsolescent in that function, but appears in a desiderative function with subjunctive force in legal ordinances and similar documents:
and in strong declarations of intent or resolve:
Now will serves as the ordinary marker of the English future tense. The former distinction between shall and will may have been levelled due to the reduction, in most ordinary speech, of either form to the contraction
The verb phrase be going to also marks a future construction in English; it too is frequently contracted. Going-to future marks future planned activity and prediction based on fact. For example: I am going to do my homework tomorrow. It is going to rain on Wednesday.
There are other forms expressing futurity in English, videlicet:
The Future Perfect is used for actions finished before a point in the future, usually recognised by the time adverbial phrase's containing by or next.
The future tense forms in Latin varied by conjugation. Here is a sample of the future tense for the first conjugation verb 'amare', 'to love'.
amabo I will (shall) love amabis You (singular) will love amabit He, she, it will love amabimus We will love amabitis You (plural) will love amabunt They will loveThis method of producing the future tense in Latin was replaced in the Romance languages by another form using the infinitive plus an ending.
The futur simple is made by simply taking the infinitive of the verb and adding the correct form of avoir (to have) to the end of the word. In the nous and vous form of the word, the ending is instead just -ons and -ez, respectively. However, there are also some French verbs for which an irregular stem is used, such as aller (to go, futur simple stem = ir) and etre (to be, futur simple stem = ser). For instance:
Je mange I eat Je mangerai I will eat Nous allons We go Nous irons We will goThe futur simple usually refers to events that will happen further away in time than the futur simple.
The futur proche uses the correct present form of aller (to go) and then has the infinitive after: je mange, je vais manger = I eat, I will eat.
Notice that the futur proche, which resembles the be-going to future, actually translates as the will future, while the futur simple is the opposite!
See also: past tense, present tenseThe present tense is the tense or form of a verb expressing action, activity, state or being in the present time. In English, differentiations are made between the following forms of the present tense: Present Simple I go to school every day. Present Cont, grammatical aspectIn linguistics, grammatical aspect is a property of a verb that defines the nature of temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. In most modern Indo-European languages, including English, the concept of aspect has become conflated wi.
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