Making Tenses Easy in Afrikaans: Part 3 – Future tense

📘 Who this is for: CAPS, IEB, Cambridge students (FAL and SAL Grades 7–12) and adult Afrikaans learners.

In this lesson, you will learn how to form sentences in the future tense in Afrikaans, how future-tense sentences differ from present-tense sentences, and how to switch between the two.

Going from the present tense to the future tense

When you go from the present tense to the future tense, you add the word “sal” after the subject.

Present tense	Future tense
Sy slaap.	Sy sal slaap.
Ek stap.	Ek sal stap.
Hy lag.	Hy sal lag.

If the sentence is more complicated

For sentences in the future tense, the verb moves to the back of the sentence.

Present tense	Future tense
Sy slaap lekker.	Sy sal lekker slaap.
Ek stap saam met my hond.	Ek sal saam met my hond stap.
Hy lag vir die snaakse dans.	Hy sal vir die snaakse dans lag.

Click here to go to the next lesson:
Making Tenses Easy in Afrikaans: Part 4 – Special Verbs in the Past Tense (is, kan, moet, wil)

 

Visit our website for our free tutorials index, premium courses or private Afrikaans tutoring.

Subscribe for updates on Owl's Bilingual Academy.