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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
in the future
- At a future time, at some point in the future.
- Synonyms: later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day
Perhaps humans will live on Mars in the future.
7 messages to people 500 years in the future.
A short time away in the future.
- (US) From now on.
- Synonyms: as of now, going forward, henceforwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:henceforth
Please put the toilet seat down in the future.
Usage notes
- British speakers use in future, especially for the sense "from now on" (but also for "at a future time").
Antonyms
Translations
at a future time
- Arabic: فِي ٱلْمُسْتَقْبَل (fī l-mustaqbal)
- Armenian: ապագայում (apagayum)
- Bengali: ভবিষ্যতে (bn) (bhobiśśote)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 將來／将来 (zh) (jiānglái), 往後／往后 (zh) (wànghòu), 今後／今后 (zh) (jīnhòu), 以後／以后 (zh) (yǐhòu)
- Czech: v budoucnosti, v budoucnu
- Dutch: in de toekomst
- Esperanto: estontece
- Estonian: tulevikus (et)
- Finnish: tulevaisuudessa (fi), jatkossa (fi)
- French: dans le futur
- Georgian: მომავალში (momavalši)
- German: in der Zukunft (de), zukünftig (de), künftig (de)
- Hungarian: egyszer majd, a jövőben
- Japanese: 将来は (ja) (しょうらいは, shōrai wa), これから (kore kara)
- Kazakh: болашақта (bolaşaqta), келешекте (keleşekte)
- Latin: in futūrum
- Murui Huitoto: ɨko
- Navajo: náásgóó
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: i fremtiden, i framtida
- Nynorsk: i framtida
- Polish: w przyszłości
- Portuguese: no futuro, futuramente (pt)
- Russian: в бу́дущем (ru) (v búduščem)
- Spanish: en el futuro, en lo sucesivo
- Swedish: i framtiden
- Turkish: ilerde (tr) (figurative)
- Yiddish: אויף להבא (oyf lehabe), אין דער צוקונפֿט (in der tsukunft), אויף ווײַטער (oyf vayter)
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