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

[sollersuk]

> 
> > 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

And a bit wider as well, with a feeling of "intent" - "Je vais me 
marier"; I would only expect "Je me mariera" with a date, even a 
fairly vague one.



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