Future tense question

[arrowisland]

Hi everyone! I have a small question. I've just started learning Korean very recently, as in, a few weeks ago. My teacher is Korean, but we're not currently working from a textbook, so I really only have what he says to go on. Today we looked a little at future tenses (very casual), and he told me, for example:

갈것이다 (will go)

I was looking at this page and I couldn't see anything about the ㅅ이 part. Could someone help me out? Thanks!

[javiskefka]

It's the row called Future (Probable). Your teacher told you the dictionary form conjugation. In practice the ㅅ is usually dropped from 것.

Try "갈 거예요"

[hyunwoo]

Jeff, thanks for providing the answer!

arrowisland, yes, just like Jeff said,

갈 것이다 is the dictionary form.

가다 = dictionary form of 'to go'

갈 것 = "the plan to go" "the idea of going" "the act of going in the future"

갈 것이다 = I will go.

And since 것이다 is in its dictionary form(사전형),

것이예요 (standard politeness level)
것입니다 (formal politeness level)
것이야 (intimate politeness level)

are possible.


and 것이예요 becomes 거예요 in colloquial speech.

So you can see 갈 거예요 in the verb conjugation table that you linked to your post.


I hope this helps!