Jeg kommer til å drikke kaffe i morgen.

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Breakdown of Jeg kommer til å drikke kaffe i morgen.

• drikke: to drink
• i morgen: tomorrow
• kaffen: the coffee

Questions & Answers about Jeg kommer til å drikke kaffe i morgen.

What does kommer til å literally mean, and why is it used for the future here?

Literally, kommer til å looks like “comes to to” (since å can mean “to” before a verb), but you should not translate it word for word. As a chunk, kommer til å + infinitive is a common way to talk about the future.

In practice, Jeg kommer til å drikke kaffe i morgen is close to English “I’m going to drink coffee tomorrow” or “I will (probably) drink coffee tomorrow.”

So:

• kommer = present tense of å komme (“to come”)
• til = part of the fixed expression; you don’t translate it separately
• å drikke = “to drink” (infinitive)

Treat kommer til å here as one future-like construction, not as “come” in the physical sense.

How is kommer til å different from skal or vil in Norwegian?