-(으)ㄹ 거예요
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Grammar · 2 senses
will, be going to - a plan or intention
Examples
이번 주말에 이사할 거예요.
I'm moving house this weekend.
표가 없으면 어떻게 할 거예요?
What will you do if there are no tickets?
When you'd hear it
-(으)ㄹ 것입니다 is formal and common in writing, announcements, presentations, and polite workplace speech. In everyday conversation, -(으)ㄹ 거예요 is much more natural, while -(으)ㄹ 거야 is casual.
What learners get wrong
-ㄹ 거예요 after a vowel or a ㄹ stem, -을 거예요 after any other consonant. The irregulars behave as usual: 듣다 → 들을 거예요, 돕다 → 도울 거예요. This is the speaker's own plan; the same shape also carries a guess about someone else, which is a separate pattern taught later.
it'll probably be - a guess from what you know
Examples
민수 씨는 지금 집에 있을 거예요.
Minsu is probably at home now.
그 영화는 재미있을 거예요.
That film will probably be good.
When you'd hear it
The full form -(으)ㄹ 것이다 is common in writing, reports, news, and formal speech when making a prediction or supposition. In everyday conversation, it often appears as -(으)ㄹ 거예요 or -(으)ㄹ 거야.
What learners get wrong
The future ending used as a guess about someone else: 지금쯤 도착했을 거예요. Unlike -겠어요 it rests on what you know rather than what you are looking at, so it carries more confidence than -(으)ㄴ/는/(으)ㄹ 것 같다 does.
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