zukünftig
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈt͡suːˌkʏnftɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /-ˌkʏnftɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: zu‧künf‧tig
Adjective
[edit]zukünftig (strong nominative masculine singular zukünftiger, not comparable)
- future
- 1913 [1878], chapter 21, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina[1], translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4:
- Er erkundigte sich nach ihrem Befinden und wie sie den Morgen verbracht habe. »Schlecht, sehr schlecht. Den Morgen und alle vergangenen und zukünftigen Tage«, antwortete sie.
- He asked her how she was, and how she had spent the morning. “Very, very miserably. Today and this morning and all past days and days to come,” she said.
- prospective
- Synonym: in spe
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of zukünftig (uncomparable)
Adverb
[edit]zukünftig
- in the future
- Synonyms: in der Zukunft, künftig