Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?
Маргааш би Дархан явна.
Tomorrow I will go to Darkhan.
Тэр их сургуульд орно.
He/she will enter university.
Бид ирэх сард уулзана.
We will meet next month.
Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?
The future uses the same -на/-но/-нэ/-нө suffix as present tense! Context (time words) distinguishes them. Маргааш (tomorrow) signals future.
Apply this grammar in A1 course exercises
Practice ExercisesExpecting a separate future marker like English 'will'
Wrong vowel harmony in future/present suffix
Маргааш би Дархан явна.
Tomorrow I will go to Darkhan.
маргааш (tomorrow) + явна signals future despite same suffix as present.
Тэр их сургуульд орно.
He/she will enter university.
ор- (enter) + -но = орно (future/present, back vowel).
Бид ирэх сард уулзана.
We will meet next month.
ирэх сард (next month) + уулзана = future meeting.
Practice in course
Apply this grammar in A1 course exercises