toekomst
Meaning
future
Concepts
future
hereafter
futurity
time to come
to be
tomorrow
future tense
perfect system
present system
Frequency
Hyphenated as
toe‧komst
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtukɔmst/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch toecomste (“arrival, visit”). Equivalent to toe + komst. Temporal use developed first in the adjective toekomstig. Such use of the noun (ca. 1800) appears to follow German Zukunft, in which it is general since the 18th century and attested since the 14th.
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