[gothic-l] Re: Why German has no future tense

[Daniel Hicken]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "sollersuk" <sollers at p...> wrote:
> SNIP! <
> French has a nice definite future tense, and uses it to a 
> considerable extent when referring to past events that are in the 
> future with respect to even earlier events.

A very prolific tense system, past, present and future.

> Come to think of it, the French use "aller" as an auxiliary to 
> express the future pretty often as well.

That's used to express the imminent future, as in within the next five
minutes to a couple hours, so, 'je vais aller au marché' I'm going to
go to the market.

(Just throwing in my two bits. :) )

Cheers

Daniel




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