Romanian, although a Romance language, has patterns like Balkan languages such as Greek and Serbian and Croatian in that it uses reflexes of the verb: (to want): * "love": infinitive a iubi → 3rd sing. future va iubi Romanian also forms a future tense from the subjunctive, with a preceding particle, o, also derived from vrea: * "love": infinitive a iubi → 3rd sing. future o să iubească (lit. (want) that he love) Hi Frey, this site about The future tense in Romanian shows how it can be constructed in three different ways... www.romanianlessons.com/Lesson7.htm