Future Tense

  

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Future Tense

Definition: Future Tense

Future Tense

Noun

1. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Future Tense

Synonym: future (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Future tense

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In linguistics, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected in the future.

Future tense in English

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 'll. The verb phrase be going to also marks a future construction in more colloquial varieties of English; it too is frequently contracted.

Future tense in Latin

The future tense forms in Latin varied by conjugation. Here is a sample of the future tense for the first conjugation verbe '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 love
This method of producing the future tense in Latin was replaced in the Romance languages by another form using the infinitive plus an ending.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Future tense."

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Modern Usage: Future Tense

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Future Tense (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Future Tense

DomainTitle

Books

  • Child Group Psychotherapy: Future Tense (American Group Psychotherapy Association Monograph, 3) (reference)

  • Future Tense (reference)

  • Future Tense, Or... Tense Future (reference)

  • How Ottawa Spends 2000-2001: Past Imperfect, Future Tense (reference)

  • Nurses: Future Tense, Or...Tense Future (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Future Tense

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

future tense

28

continuous future tense

4

french future tense

4

future tense verb

3

exercise future tense

3

english future tense

2

esl future tense

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Future Tense

Language Translations for "future tense"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

futur (future). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עתי" (prepared, ready). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jövő idő (future). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

未来形 (the future tense). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

みらいけい (the future tense). (various references)

   

Manx

  

emshir ry heet. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uturefay ensetay

   

Russian 

  

будущее время. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Future Tense

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-n-r-s-t-t-u-u"

-2 letters: enfetters, unfetters.

-3 letters: enfetter, unfetter, untruest.

-4 letters: entrees, entrust, fetters, futures, netters, neuters, nutters, refutes, retenes, retunes, teeners, teeters, tenters, tenures, trustee, tufters, tureens, unfrees.

-5 letters: enserf, ensure, enters, entree, enures, eterne, fester, fetter, freest, funest, future, nester, netter, neuter, nutter, refuse, refute, renest, rentes, reseen, resent, retene, retest, retune, retuse, serene, settee, setter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Future Tense


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 75 74 75 72 65      54 65 6E 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110101 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101 &#32 &#84 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 0074 0075 0072 0065      0054 0065 006E 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40878687847125471808571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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