Emplois particuliers du futur simple et leurs équivalents polonais

Abstract

The present paper focuses on some of the uses of the Future Simple Tense and the analysis of their Polish equivalents. The material for the analysis is taken from the corpus of French literary texts and their Polish translations. The author concentrates on the modal uses of the tense expressing probability (Ce sera le facteur), command (Tu mettras la table !), and those whose function is to soften a statement (Je te dirai que cela ne me plaît pas). Polish, in the above mentioned contexts, makes use of the Future Tense as well, but, as the analysis of the corpus material shows, there are some contexts where some other structures are used, such e.g. as: forms of the imperative mood or the conditional, modal particles (pewnie, może), constructions with the verb musieć, polite phrases with proszę, etc.