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Lesson 30B1

Future Tense

ಭವಿಷ್ಯತ್ ಕಾಲ

German technically has a future tense (werden + infinitive), but everyday speech mostly just uses the present tense plus a time word — Kannada, by contrast, marks the future right on the verb with its own ending.

Grammar Comparison

ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ ಹೋಲಿಕೆ

Present tense often does the job of the future

German

Ich fahre morgen nach Berlin. (present-tense fahre, but morgen makes the future meaning clear)

Kannada

ನಾನು ನಾಳೆ ಬರ್ಲಿನ್‌ಗೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ. (a distinct future-tense verb ending, -ತ್ತೇನೆ)

Kannada marks future time on the verb itself with its own ending (ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ, 'I will go', built the same way whether the action is happening now or later — context and time words do the real work). German has a dedicated construction too, werden + infinitive (Ich werde fahren), but German speakers very often skip it in everyday speech and simply use the present tense with a time word like morgen ('tomorrow') to signal the future instead. Use werden + infinitive when you want to be unambiguous or emphatic; otherwise present tense plus a time word is the more natural everyday choice.

Vocabulary

ಪದಗಳು

ich werde fahrenikh VAIR-deh FAH-ren
Kannada
ನಾನು ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆnaanu hogutteene
English
I will go / drive
ich werde kommenikh VAIR-deh KOM-en
Kannada
ನಾನು ಬರುತ್ತೇನೆnaanu baruttene
English
I will come
ich werde sehenikh VAIR-deh ZAY-en
Kannada
ನಾನು ನೋಡುತ್ತೇನೆnaanu nodutteene
English
I will see
morgenMOR-gen
Kannada
ನಾಳೆnaale
English
tomorrow
nächste WocheNEKH-steh VOH-kheh
Kannada
ಮುಂದಿನ ವಾರmundina vaara
English
next week
baldbahlt
Kannada
ಬೇಗbega
English
soon