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Q: Can someone explain 'hui' and 'yao' future tense in Mandarin?
Can someone who speaks Chinese here explain this to me? Despite my university teacher's explanations, it's still not clear to me.
Thanks!
12 years 24 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
hui experesses the ability for some work to do.....nd yao means used to be that specific kind of work....
会 hui4 is the ability, something you are able to do because of talent or because you learned and practiced it (languages, swimming, to drive a car, .... and drinking alcohol and smoking 
)
In general the future is indicated by words like "tomorrow", "next year", "next week", "when I have the time" with no change in verbs.
要 yao4 can mean "want" or "will" (future tense), depending on context.
In written language 将 jiang1 is used for the future tense.
