Future Actions with 'នឹង'

01

'Will / Going To'

• ខ្ញុំនឹងទៅ

  khñom nɨng tɨwkhnom nung tuw

  I will go.

• ខ្ញុំនឹងទិញវា

  khñom nɨng tɨñ viəkhnom nung tun vie

  I will buy it.

• ខ្ញុំនឹងទៅផ្ទះ

  khñom nɨng tɨw phtĕəhkhnom nung tuw phteeh

  I will go home.

02

Intention and Prediction

នឹង (nɨngnung) covers both a plan ("I intend to") and a forecast ("it will happen"). It is the marker for anything not yet realised.

• ថ្ងៃស្អែកនឹងត្រជាក់

  thngay sʼaek nɨng trɑcĕəkthngay saek nung traceek

  Tomorrow will be cold. (forecast, not a personal plan)

03

Often Left to Context

Just like the past, the future is frequently shown by a time word alone — "tomorrow", "next week" — with no នឹង (nɨngnung) at all. The marker is added when you want to make the futurity explicit or stress the intention.

• ខ្ញុំធ្វើវានៅពេលក្រោយ

  khñom thvəə viə nɨw peel kraoykhnom thvee vie nuw peel kraoy

  I'll do it later.

04

Negating the Future

The negative wraps the ordinary frame around it: នឹង (nɨngnung) + មិន (mɨnmun) … ទេ (tei), or simply negate the verb and let a time word show it is the future.

• ខ្ញុំនឹងមិនធ្វើដូច្នេះទេ

  khñom nɨng mɨn thvəə doucneh teikhnom nung mun thvee doucneh tei

  I won't do that.

05

A Look-alike to Avoid

There is another word written នឹង (nɨngnung) that means the preposition "with". It is unrelated to the future marker; only its position — before a verb (future) vs. before a noun ("with") — tells them apart.

• ខ្ញុំនឹងទៅផ្សារ

  khñom nɨng tɨw phsaakhnom nung tuw phsaa

  I will go to the market. (future: នឹង before the verb)

• វាសមនឹងអ្នក

  viə sɑɑm nɨng nĕəkvie saam nung neek

  It suits you. (preposition: នឹង before the noun)