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Future Tense
There are no corresponding future tense verb formations, in Chinese, as there are in English. Chinese verbs take no inflections - there is one form only, for singular and plural, past, present and future. In English, to form the future tense, one adds will or shall to the infinitive:
Present
I am going to New York. He goes to Shanghai.
Future
I shall go to New York. He will go to Shanghai.
A common way to indicate the future tense (as well as the past) in Chinese is to add an adverb of time:
To refer to an indefinite time in the future, use jianglai:
和
hé
but one can simply pause between words instead of using a conjunction: