未来式

未來式
wèiláishì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 future tense (grammar)
  2. 2 future style

Examples

HSK 2
Yīngyǔ dòngcí de wèiláishì chángyòng will biǎoshì.
The future tense of English verbs is commonly expressed with 'will'.
HSK 3
Zhōngwén lǐ méiyǒu zhuānmén de wèiláishì, yào kào shíjiān cí lái biǎodá.
Chinese has no dedicated future tense; it relies on time words to express the future.

Tips

usage
Mainly a grammar term in English/Japanese language teaching. Mandarin itself has no inflected future tense, so this is rarely used to describe Chinese - it labels the future tense of other languages, e.g. 英语未来式 (Yīngyǔ wèiláishì).

Stroke Order

wèi
lái
shì