Translation
active participle, future: about to do, going to do
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Examples
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Next week will be warm.
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I spoke with my brother's future wife.
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He was about to leave when she came.
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The future belongs to the young.
-- is the active participle of the future: the root's action has not happened yet, but it is coming. gives (coming, next), gives (future, to be), gives (about to leave). With -o it names the person who is going to do it, and with -- it gives the most useful noun of the three: , the future.
The nuance worth holding on to is that -- looks forward from the moment in question, not from today. puts you in the past, with him on the point of leaving. And it carries intention or destiny rather than mere lateness: is the woman who will be his wife, and is simply next week.
The set runs -ant- (doing), -- (having done), -- (about to do), with -at-, -it- and -- as the passive mirror. The participles article has the full table.
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