Language/Turkish/Grammar/Future-Tense

How to Express the Future Tense in Turkish

Merhaba everybody 😎

In today's lesson you will learn some useful vocabulary about ¨FUTURE TENSE¨ in Turkish.

There are many ways to express future in Turkish but generally, we use the terminations -ecek and -acak.

Happy learning! :)

Rules

Turkish conjugation looks a lot like the other European languages.

First of all, you should take the verb stem and and add the future addition at the end. You can form the future tense in Turkish with the -ecek and -acak additions.

For example, you should start with the verb "love" (sevmek). The verb stem is sev-. The future addition is, in the first singular, -eceğim. Therefore it will make: sev + eceğim.

"I will always love you (Seni daima seveceğim)". You don't need to use "I" (ben) at the begining of the sentense because you are already expressing "I" with the addition -ecek. Only if you want to make an emphasis, you can add the first pronoun "I" (ben).

It works the same as the other European languages. For example if you want to say "I love you" in Italian you should say "ti amo". The verb is amare and the verb stem is -am. The first singular addition is -o. Namely the full sentence is amo. This is the same in Turkish.

Therefore, here is the formula to use:

PRONOUNS + VERB + (ECEK / ACAK)

Conjugation

PRONOUNS		PRONOUNS
ben	-eceğim	I	will
sen	-eceksin	you	will
o	-ecek	he/she/it	will
biz	-eceğiz	we	will
siz	-eceksiniz	you	will
onlar	-ecekler	they	will

Examples

• Ben geleceğim: I will come

• Sen geleceksin: you will come

ENGLISH	TURKISH	PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH
I WILL COME	BEN GELECEĞİM	behn geh leh jeh eh ihm
YOU WILL COME	SEN GELECEKSİN	sehn geh leh jehk sihn
HE / SHE / IT WILL COME	O GELECEK	oh geh leh jehk
WE WILL COME	BİZ GELECEĞİZ	bihz geh leh jeh eh ihz
YOU WILL COME	SİZ GELECEKSİNİZ	sihz geh leh jehk sih nihz
THEY WILL COME	ONLAR GELECEKLER	ohn lahr geh leh jehk lehr
I WILL COME HOME	BEN EVE GELECEĞİM	behn eh veh geh leh jeh eh ihm
YOU WILL COME HOME	SEN EVE GELECEKSİN	sehn eh veh geh leh jehk sihn
HE WILL COME HOME	O EVE GELECEK	oh eh veh geh leh jehk
WE WILL COME HOME	BİZ EVE GELECEĞİZ	bihz eh veh geh leh jeh eh ihz
YOU WILL COME HOME	SİZ EVE GELECEKSİNİZ	sihz eh veh geh leh jehk sih nihz
THEY WILL COME HOME	ONLAR EVE GELECEKLER	ohn lahr eh veh geh leh jehk lehr