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.
میں کوشش کروں گاmaiṉ koshish karūṉ gā: I'll tryKoshish = effort. The honest answer when you can't promise.
ٹھیک ہے، پھر ملتے ہیںṭhīk hai, phir milte haiṉ: Alright, see you thenPresent tense doing future work, exactly like English 'see you'.
کب آئیں گے؟kab āeṉ ge?: When will you come?L6's kab, now aimed at the future.
کیا پروگرام ہے؟kyā progrām hai?: What's the plan?Progrām means plan in Pakistan, not a TV schedule.
میں فون کروں گاmaiṉ fon karūṉ gā: I'll callFon karnā, another noun turned into a verb by karnā.
اگلے مہینےagle mahīne: next monthMahīnā = month, and also the moon it was counted by.
جلدی آؤں گاjaldī āūṉ gā: I'll come soonJaldī = quickly, soon, and in a hurry.
ہم ضرور جائیں گےham zarūr jāeṉ ge: We'll definitely goZarūr, your R9 word: definitely, certainly, without fail.
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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