Future Tense

Present tense often does the job of the future

Malayalam marks future time directly on the verb with its own suffix (പോകും, 'will go', distinct from പോകുന്നു, 'go/going'). German has a parallel construction, 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 — something Malayalam's dedicated -ും future form never lets you get away with. Use werden + infinitive when you want to be unambiguous or emphatic; otherwise present tense plus a time word is the more natural everyday choice.