Translation
future
Examples
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Nobody knows the future.
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Let us think about the future of our language.
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In the future everything will be different.
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He saw a black future ahead of him.
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The future belongs to the young.
This is a word you can take apart in public: est- to be, -ont- the future active participle, -- the abstract quality. Literally, the state of being about to be. The same machinery gives for the past and o for the present, so learning one hands you three. Note that the participle on its own is an ordinary adjective: is a coming year, though for "next year" most speakers say . And in grammar talk, the -os tense is the futuro, a different word entirely.
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