future tense
US/fjuːt͡ʃʰɚ tɛns/
future tense noun: 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.
Noun
future tense (plural future tenses)
- 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.
- The future tense came into being as the verbs sculan and willan lost their ancient power as finite verbs and turned into future auxiliaries.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 157
future tense meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
future tense in Hindi
- time form of a verb
- भविष्यकाल bhaviṣyakāl, भविष्य bhaviṣya
future tense in Tamil
- time form of a verb
- எதிர்காலம் etirkālam
future tense in Urdu
- time form of a verb
- مُسْتَقْبِل mustaqbil, اِسْتِقْبال istiqbāl
future tense in Bengali
- time form of a verb
- ভবিষ্যৎ কাল bhobiśśot kal
More languagesFewer languages
- future tense in Telugu
- భవిష్యత్కాలము bhaviṣyatkālamu
- future tense in Malayalam
- ഭാവി കാലം bhāvi kālaṁ
- future tense in Kannada
- ಮುಂಬೊತ್ತು
- future tense in Gujarati
- ભવિષ્ય bhaviṣya
- future tense in Tagalog
- panghinaharap, magaganap
- future tense in Arabic
- مُسْتَقْبَل mustaqbal
- future tense in Malay
- kala kelak
- future tense in Indonesian
- kala mendatang
- future tense in Thai
- อนาคตกาล à-naa-kót-dtà-gaan
- future tense in Vietnamese
- thì tương lai
Forms of future tense
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Questions about future tense
- What does future tense mean?
- Future tense means 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.
- What is future tense in Hindi?
- Future tense in Hindi is भविष्यकाल (bhaviṣyakāl), भविष्य (bhaviṣya). See Future tense meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is future tense?
- Future tense is a noun.
- How do you pronounce future tense?
- Future tense is pronounced /fjuːt͡ʃʰɚ tɛns/ (US).
- What is the plural of future tense?
- The plural of future tense is future tenses.
Words near future tense in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: future tense (page history and authors); future tense (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ભવિષ્ય (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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