In what tense is 못하겠어요 in?
"이해하지 못하겠어요" means "I can't understand", but isn't 못하겠어요 in the future tense? Wouldn't it be "I will not understand"?
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~겠다 has to meaning.
One is expressing will, and the other is expressing guessing. In this context, it means "I guess I don't understand" or "I don't think I understand", or something like that.
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On a side not, tense doesn't necessarily tell the same time as the tense is "supposed" to. For example "If I won a million dollars, I would...": it is written in the past tense, but it is used for present time.
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No, that is not a future tense but present
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