futur

See also: Futur

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French futur. Doublet of future.

Noun

futur (plural futurs)

1. (archaic) A fiancé.
   • 1863, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 127, page 492:

     In the Memoirs of Madame d'Epinay, there is a capital story, how a betrothed girl was introduced to her futur without her knowledge, and how much time was granted her to learn to know and love him.

   • 1877, Charlotte Louisa H. Dempster, Blue Roses; or, Helen Malinofska's marriage, page 20:

     If you, gracious mistress, will trust yourself to Mariette, I stake my daughter's life on your safety. Her futur, Joseph Abramovitch, is ready to take you away, dressed as his sister.

Albanian

Participle

futur

1. past participle of fut

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin futurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [fuˈtur]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -uɾ

Adjective

futur (feminine futura, masculine plural futurs, feminine plural futures)

1. future

Noun

futur m (plural futurs)

1. future
2. (grammar) future (tense)

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “futur”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “futur” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “futur”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “futur”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin futūrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: futurs, future, futures

Adjective

futur (feminine future, masculine plural futurs, feminine plural futures)

1. future

Noun

futur m (plural futurs)

1. (sometimes proscribed) future (what will happen)

   Synonym: avenir

   Le futur nous donnera la réponse. ― The future will give us the answer.

2. (grammar) future, future tense

   Le verbe manger à la deuxième personne du singulier du futur simple donne: Tu mangeras.

   The verb manger, in the second person singular future simple becomes: Tu mangeras (You will eat).

Derived terms

• futur antérieur
• futur simple

Further reading

• “futur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfutur/ [ˈfu.t̪ʊr]
• Rhymes: -utur
• Syllabification: fu‧tur

Etymology 1

From Arabic فُطُور (fuṭūr).

Noun

futur

1. (uncommon) iftar meal; breakfast

Related terms

• iftar

Etymology 2

From Arabic فُتُور (futūr).

Noun

futur

1. the feeling of lazy to do worship

Further reading

• “futur”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian futuru and/or Italian futuro, both from Latin futurum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈtuːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

Noun

futur m

1. future

   Synonym: ġejjieni

   Antonyms: mgħoddi, passat

Middle English

Noun

futur

1. alternative form of future

Adjective

futur

1. alternative form of future

Norman

Etymology

From Latin futūrus, future active participle of sum, esse.

Adjective

futur m

1. (Jersey) future

Noun

futur m (plural futurs)

1. (Jersey) future
2. (Jersey, grammar) future tense

Derived terms

• futur composé (“compound future”)
• futur continnu (“continuous future”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin futurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyˈtyɾ/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Adjective

futur m (feminine singular futura, masculine plural futurs, feminine plural futuras)

1. future

Noun

futur m (plural futurs)

1. future
2. (grammar) future (tense)

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyˈtyr/

Adjective

futur

1. future

Noun

futur m

1. future

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǔtuːr/
• Hyphenation: fu‧tur

Noun

fùtūr m inan (Cyrillic spelling фу̀тӯр)

1. (grammar) future (verb tense)

Declension

Declension of futur

	singular	plural
nominative	fùtūr	futuri
genitive	futúra	futura
dative	futuru	futurima
accusative	futur	future
vocative	futuru	futuri
locative	futuru	futurima
instrumental	futurom	futurima