Editing Going-to future (section)

==Analogous forms in other languages==
Similarly to English, the [[French verb]] ''[[wikt:aller|aller]]'' ("to go") can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (''le futur proche'').<ref>Fleischman, pp. 98-99.</ref> For example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow" can be translated by ''Je '''vais''' le '''faire''' demain'' (literally "I '''go''' it '''to do''' tomorrow"; French does not have a distinct [[present progressive]] form, so ''je vais'' stands for both "I go" and "I am going"). As in English, the French form can generally be replaced by the present or future tense: ''Je le '''fais''' demain'' ("I '''am doing''' it tomorrow") or ''Je le '''ferai''' demain'' ("I '''will do''' it tomorrow").

Likewise, the [[Spanish verb]] ''ir'' ("to go") can be used to express the future: ''Mi padre '''va a''' llegar mañana'' ("My father '''is going to''' arrive tomorrow"). Here the preposition ''a'' is used, analogous to the English ''to''; the French construction does not have this.

In [[Welsh language|Welsh]], a [[Brittonic languages|Brittonic]] and [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] language, the verb ''mynd'' ("to go") is used much like the English verb ''go''. In the sentence ''dw i'n '''mynd i''' wneud e yfory'' ("I am '''going to''' do it tomorrow") ''mynd'' is followed by the preposition ''i'' ("to, for") which is itself followed by the verb ''gwneud'' ("to do") in mutated form (hence the missing initial 'g'). This forms a ''going-to future'' as found in English.

The form is well established in urban varieties of [[Irish language|Irish]], using ''Tá'' (the Irish verb 'to be'), the preposition 'chun' ("to", "towards") and the verbal noun moved by transformation to the end of the verbal phrase. So "tá mé chun an bus a thógáil" - ("I am going to take the bus"). It is much less used in rural dialects, where the plain future tense is still preferred.