Future Tense Part 1: With certainty: Sinhala Grammar #52

 Ayubowan!

Today we will be learning about the future tense. There are two aspects to the future tense.

I am covering the first today and the second in the next lesson.

These two concepts are:

1. Accepting/ Confirming that something may happen

2. Suggesting the possibility that something may happen

To form this first tense, you take yanawaa -> yannam

I will go to the store today.

Ada mama kade yannam.

අද මම කඩේ යන්නම්. 

When using this first aspect, you can only use it for things that you know for certain will

occur. This means that you can only use this aspect when it comes to talking about things

from your point of view.

This means that the following is wrong:

Dilshan will go to the store.

Dilshan kadae yannam.

දිල්ෂාන් කඩේ යන්නම්. 

You are not Dilshan, so there is no way to know for sure that he is going to the store.

However this works,

(Dilshan said) Dilshan will go to the store.

Dilshan kade yannam lu.

දිල්ෂාන් කඩේ යන්නම් ලු. 

Let’s look at a few more examples:

After we come home, we will eat rice.

Api gedarata ennahama, api bath kannam.

අපි ගෙදරට එන්නහම අපි බත් කන්නම්.

In December (I) will go to Sri Lanka with my sister.

Desæmbaraye mage akkath Sri Lankata yannam.

දෙසැම්බරයේ මගේ අක්කත් ශ්‍රී ලන්කට යන්නම්.

That is all for this lesson! The second part will be posted on July 5th at 12AM PST.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them down below.

Thank you for reading!