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How to Express the Future Tense in Turkish

Merhaba everybody 😎

In today's lesson you will learn how to express the future tense in Turkish.

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

Happy learning! :)

With this topic under your belt, consider deepening your knowledge by investigating these related areas: REİTERATİVE, Gender, Conditional Mood & Participles.

Rules

The conjugation of the future tense in Turkish is very similar to other European languages.

First, you need to take the root of the verb and add the future tense to the end. You can form the future tense in Turkish with the -ecek and -acak additions.

For example, you should start with the verb "to love" (sevmek). The verbal root is sev-. The future addition is, in the first singular, -eceğim. So it will be: sev + eceğim.

"I will always love you (Seni daima seveceğim)". You don't need to use "I" (ben) at the beginning of the sentence because you already express "I" with the -ecek addition. Only if you want to emphasize, you can add the first pronoun "I" (ben).

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

Here is the formula to use:

PRONOUNS + VERB + (ECEK / ACAK)

For instance,

• Ben gideceğim. ➡ I will go.
• Sen gideceksin. ➡ You will go.
• O gidecek. ➡ He/She/It will go.
• Biz gideceğiz.➡ We will go.
• Siz gideceksiniz. ➡ You will go.
• Onlar gidecek(ler). ➡ They will go.

Conjugation

Turkish		English
Pronouns	Suffixes
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

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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

Other Lessons

• SIFATLARDA KÜÇÜLTME
• Prepositions
• Present Continuous in Turkish
• Count from 1 to 10
• Questions
• How to Use Be
• The Accusative Case in Turkish
• Ordinal Numbers in Turkish
• Pronouns
• The Nominative Case in Turkish