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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Even in English it's probably more common to show future time by using present tense plus a time marker rather than by actually using future tense. "I'm going to the store tomorrow" is present tense (am going) but expresses future time; "I will go to the store tomorrow" is future tense.
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I'm not sure, but I think the former is a common contraction of "I am going to (go to the store) tomorrow", where (go to the store) can be replaced by any action. I'm not sure that the contraction is grammatically correct, but it's a lot less clumsy and it's unambiguous, so most use it.