Questions tagged [future]
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Does the volitional form of a verb mean both "let's" and "I want to"?
I was taught ages ago that the volitional form of a verb means "let's" do something. For example, if you take 行{い}く and change it to 行{い}こう, you get "let's go".
However, I feel like I can use the same form to express "I want to". For…
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Future dates in the Japanese calendar
I was looking at the heisei wiki page and I wondered how you would refer to future dates in the japanese calendar?
For example would 'The 2020 olympics' be '[平成]{へいせい}３２[年]{ねん}のオリンピック'? Is there some standard?
If this was on a web page and an era…
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Using にしておいてやる to say "Let's pretend"?
今日のところは引き分けって事にしておいてやるっ！
I saw this sentence in the dialect of a videogame between character A and B.
B says this line after being defeated by A.
I think B is saying that they should pretend this (defeat) is a "tie" (Because he seems to be…
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〜なければ、〜がきっといる。Do the tenses agree?
I saw this sentence in a train advertisement for a job placement agency:
いまとサヨナラしなければ、出会えないあなたがきっといる。
I don't sense a future tense at all in the independent (latter) clause because the verb is simply いる rather than a "can" form like 〜える/〜れる/〜ける。The…
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Phrases indicating time in the future
I was taught to use 未来 and 将来 to reference the future but after actually interacting with native speakers I've noticed that these words are not often used.
I'd like to know how to express the following future time phrases as I don't believe that…
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Using 〜てある as a future tense?
I've been taught that 〜てある is used to express that something has been done already in preparation for something, similar to 〜ておく (with a lot of nuance that I'm going to ignore here). However, just from my own observations (mainly from anime, manga,…
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「う」 for future tense
So, I looked up in a dictionary that the suffix「う」can indicate will. So, could this possibly indicate future tense? If so, is there a special case?
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Future II Simple in Japanese
How can you express something like "Tomorrow I will have finished my work" or "Because I have to do hard word tomorrow, I will be very tired in the evening"?
明日、仕事を絶対終えたようとする。 ？
明日、にくい仕事があるから、夜にとても疲れしまっているようになる（なりそうだ？）。 ？
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How to ask about someone's opinion regarding the future?
I have a question. I wanna ask:
"Do You think in the near future/from now on more people will be learning Japanese?".
What is the best way to ask that? I have come up with two…
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How to say "a few years in the future" / "a few years from now"
I'd like to express the idea that maybe a few years from now things would work out better. But I can't figure out how that would be said in Japanese. I know that if it were past tense, it could be said like 数年前だったら or 何年か前だったら. What's the equivalent…
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past / future -- "抜けたら" -- 「国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった」
Other uses of the particle と: トンネルを抜けると雪国であった
「国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった」
抜ける looks like present (but we know it's past) -- What is the usual explantion for this ?
「国境の長いトンネルを抜けたら雪国であった」 <--- Here 抜けたら looks like past, but this must be an illusion,…
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相対テンス -- ①ハワイへ行く時、帽子を買う。 ②ハワイへ行く時、帽子を買った。 ③ハワイへ行った時、帽子を買う。 ④ハワイへ行った時、帽子を買った。
http://blog.livedoor.jp/robinsonrobin/archives/8036910.html
ハワイへ行く時、帽子を買う。
ハワイへ行く時、帽子を買った。
ハワイへ行った時、帽子を買う。
ハワイへ行った時、帽子を買った。
If I completely understand these, will I have undertood half of all the complex issues in Jp [relative tense] (相対テンス) ?
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