in the future

English

Prepositional phrase

At a future time, at some point in the future.
Perhaps humans will live on Mars in the future.
(US) From now on.
Please put the toilet seat down in the future.

Usage notes

British usage distinguishes between in the future meaning "at some point" in the future and in future meaning "from now on". American usage makes no such distinction, using in the future in both senses.

Antonyms

in the past

Translations

at a future time

Armenian: ապագայում (apagayum)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 將來 (zh), 将来 (zh) (jiānglái), 往後 (zh), 往后 (zh) (wànghòu), 今後 (zh), 今后 (zh) (jīnhòu), 以後 (zh), 以后 (zh) (yǐhòu)
Estonian: tulevikus
Finnish: tulevaisuudessa (fi), jatkossa (fi)
French: dans le futur
Georgian: მომავალში (momavalši)
German: in der Zukunft (de), zukünftig (de), künftig (de)
Japanese: 将来は (ja) (しょうらいは, shōrai wa), これから (kore kara)
Kazakh: болашақта (bolaşaqta), келешекте (keleşekte)

Navajo: náásgóó
Norwegian:
Bokmål: i fremtiden, i framtida

Nynorsk: i framtida
Portuguese: no futuro, futuramente
Russian: в бу́дущем (ru) (v búduščem)
Spanish: en el futuro, en lo sucesivo
Swedish: i framtiden

from now on — see from now on

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