未来式

未來式
wèiláishì
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

Yīngyǔ dòngcí de wèiláishì cháng yòng will biǎoshì.
The future tense of English verbs is commonly expressed with 'will'.
Zhōngwén lǐ méiyǒu zhuānmén de wèiláishì, yào kào shíjiāncí 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