future

avenir, futur

Temps qui vient après le présent, où les événements ne se sont pas encore produits.

En anglais simple : The time after now, when things have not happened yet.

• Nobody knows the future.
• Will people live longer in the future?
• She worried about what the future would bring.

Comment l'utiliser : in the future (We will need more space in the future.)

Synonymes : time ahead

Contraires : past

Expressions courantes : in the future, near future, distant future

avenir

Possibilités de réussite ou de développement d’une personne ou d’une chose dans les années à venir.

En anglais simple : The chance that someone or something will succeed or develop in the years ahead.

• You have a bright future.
• Does this small company have a future?
• Her coach believed she had a great future in tennis.

Comment l'utiliser : a future in something (He has a future in music.); a future ahead of someone (You have a promising future ahead of you.)

Synonymes : prospects

Expressions courantes : bright future, future in something, future ahead

futur

Forme du verbe utilisée pour parler de ce qui se passera après le moment présent.

En anglais simple : A verb form used to talk about things that will happen after now.

• Use the future to describe tomorrow’s plans.
• This verb is in the future.
• We learned the simple future before studying more difficult tenses.

Synonymes : future tense

Expressions courantes : simple future, future perfect, in the future

futur, à venir

Qui se produira ou existera après le moment présent.

En anglais simple : Happening or existing after now.

• We talked about our future plans.
• She met her future husband at university.
• Future generations will need clean water too.

Synonymes : coming, upcoming

Contraires : past

Expressions courantes : future generations, future plans, future husband