Translation
passive participle, future: to be done
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Examples
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The letter is to be written tomorrow.
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The house is to be built by the river.
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The question is still to be solved.
-- is the passive participle of the future: the root's action is going to be done to someone or something, but has not happened yet. gives (to be written), gives (to be built), gives (still to be solved). With it makes a passive that looks ahead: .
The nuance worth holding on to is that -- says only that the action lies ahead, not that it must happen. Obligation is a different suffix: -end- makes a, which must be solved. is merely waiting its turn.
It is the rarest of the six participles in everyday speech, where people more often say , but it is fully regular and turns up in planning and formal prose. With -at- and -it- it completes the passive set in the passive article.
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