toekomst

Meaning

future

Concepts

future

hereafter

futurity

time to come

to be

tomorrow

future tense

perfect system

present system

Frequency

A2
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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