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Writing about the future – WJECKeywords to discuss the future

Being able to use the future tense correctly will allow you to talk and write about your future plans, as well as help you arrange an event and express your hopes and plans for the future.

Part of Welsh Second Language (WJEC)Writing

Keywords to discuss the future

If you want to talk or write about the future, you need to know some keywords:

  • heno – tonight
  • yfory – tomorrow
  • nos yfory – tomorrow night
  • dros y penwythnos – over the weekend
  • yn y dyfodol – in the future

Notice the word nesaf in the following expressions:

  • dydd Gwener nesafnext Friday
  • nos Wener nesafnext Friday night
  • penwythnos nesafnext weekend
  • wythnos nesafnext week
  • y flwyddyn nesafnext year

You also need to be able to say what you will be doing in the future:

  • Bydda i… – I will…/I will be…
  • Byddwn ni’n… – We will…/We will be…
  • Bydda i’n mynd allan gyda ffrindiau nos yfory. – I’ll be going out with friends tomorrow night.
  • Byddwn ni’n mynd i’r sinema. – We’ll go to the cinema.