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Gaat het regenen?
Is it going to rain?
Use of gaan to express the future is similar, but not identical to its use in
English but in Dutch one cannot use gaan to express the future of gaan,
zijn, hebben and modal verbs (e.g. He’s going to have to give it back) 2 or
in contexts where it does not refer to an imminent action.
11.1.5.3
A third possible way of rendering the future, which also has a parallel in
English, is by using the simple present tense:
Hij koopt binnenkort een nieuwe auto.
He is buying a new car soon.
Hij vliegt morgen naar Moskou.
He is flying to Moscow tomorrow.
This form of the future is somewhat more common in Dutch than in English.
It is always used when the sentence contains an adverb of future time
which is sufficient to indicate that the action will take place in the future;
compare the two sentences above with the previous four sentences. There
are numerous occasions where we might use ‘will’ where the Dutch would
give preference to the present tense:
Dat doe ik morgen.
I’ll do it tomorrow.
Hij komt volgende week.
He’ll be coming next week.
11.1.6
Future perfect tense
De voltooid tegenwoordig toekomende tijd—v.t.t.t.
The future perfect tense in Dutch corresponds exactly to that in English:
Hij zal het gedaan hebben (or hebben gedaan)
He will have done it.
Zij zal naar huis gegaan zijn (or zijn gegaan)
She will have gone home.
2 But constructions of the sort Hij gaat het moeten teruggeven ‘He’s going to have to
give it back’ do occur in Flanders.
Formation of
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