The future is friendly: verb + gā (m) / gī (f) / ge (plural), agreeing just like colors did in Level 9. With it comes the other half of the kal trick — and the most famous protest poem in Urdu.
میں جاؤں گیmaiṉ jāūṉgī — I will go (f)gā → gī, same pattern as the past.
میں کل آؤں گاmaiṉ kal āūṉgā — I'll come tomorrowFuture verb → kal means tomorrow. The trick, mastered.
ہم چائے پئیں گےham chāy pīeṉge — We'll drink chaiHam = we. Arguably Urdu's most inevitable sentence.
کیا آپ آئیں گے؟kyā āp āeṉge? — Will you come?L6's kyā question trick, now aimed at the future.
میں اردو سیکھوں گاmaiṉ urdū sīkhūṉgā — I will learn UrduA promise you're already keeping.
ہم دیکھیں گےham dekheṉge — We shall seeAlso the title of Faiz's legendary poem — see the fun fact.
انشاءاللہ کل ملیں گےinshāAllah kal mileṉge — God willing, we'll meet tomorrowL13's inshāAllah + today's future = how plans are actually made.
Good to know
✨ Future endings agree like adjectives: jāūṉgā (m), jāūṉgī (f), jāeṉge (plural/respect). One rule, whole tense.
✨ “Ham Dekhenge” — 'We shall see' — is Faiz Ahmed Faiz's protest anthem, sung from Lahore stadiums to student marches for forty years. You just conjugated its title.
✨ Attaching inshāAllah to future plans isn't just piety — it's grammar-adjacent culture. A bare 'I will come' sounds oddly overconfident to desi ears; inshāAllah softens fate itself.
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