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The Future Tense

To express actions that will happen in the future using imperfective verbs, you typically form it by combining the future tense of the verb biti ('to be') with the past active participle of the main verb. For perfective verbs, you use the simple future tense form (one word).

  • Compound Future ('biti' + Past Active Participle - for imperfective verbs): bom, boš, bo, bova/bosta/bosta, bomo, boste, bodo + Past active participle (-l/-la/-lo/-li)
  • Simple Future (for perfective verbs): Formed using the present tense stem of the perfective verb.
  • Examples (Compound Future - imperfective): Jaz bom bral knjigo (I will read a book). Ti boš govoril z njim (You will talk with him). Ona bo delala jutri (She will work tomorrow). Midva bova pisala (We two will write). Oni bodo gledali film (They will watch a film).
  • Examples (Simple Future - perfective): Jaz preberem knjigo (I will read a book). Ti poveš mu (You will tell him). Ona naredi to (She will do it).