~te iku

I'm a little confused by how it works.

Is ~te iku used to refer to something that will happen from now on, or does it refer to something that has already begun to happen and will continue to happen?

A song I'm listening makes use of ~te iku a lot, and from the different places I've looked at, I'm getting different answers. Here's one of the sentences that makes use of it (twice):

君がいない日々を超えて あたしも大人になっていく こうやって全て忘れていくのかな

Would 大人になっていく be "I will become an adult" or "I'm becoming an adult"? Because (I think) she's talking about what's happening now and what will happen in the future. Likewise, would the 忘れていく part be "I wonder if I will forget everything"? Is she talking as if she's already begun to forget and will continue to do so, or she wonders if she will start to?

And finally, in the next line:

この想いが 今春に つつまれていくよ

I'm not sure about at all. "This feeling will be wrapped up in this year's spring"? Or "this feeling is wrapped up [and will continue to be so]"?

One extra query, what does the 'shi' after the negai in this sentence mean?

君と 春に 願いし あの夢は 今も見えているよ

It doesn't seem to fit with the context...

Rinilex said:

Is ~te iku used to refer to something that will happen from now on, or does it refer to something that has already begun to happen and will continue to happen?

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Both can be possible. It totally depends on the context. As for your examples quoted from SAKURA, the first two would be "will", and the last one is "has alredy started", imo.


今春に is いま、はるに "now this feeling... in the spring", not こんしゅんに "in this spring".

Rinilex said:

One extra query, what does the 'shi' after the negai in this sentence mean?

君と 春に 願いし あの夢は 今も見えているよ

It doesn't seem to fit with the context...

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し is the attributive form of き which is a classical auxiliary verb for past tense, thus, 願いし is the same as 願った.

Thank you! I was absolutely lost with the 'shi' and couldn't find an explanation that made any sense! It repeats later in the song too (SAKURA, yes, haha) and it was confusing me. And thanks for the clarification with the kanji, I doubt I would have caught that at some point. ^_^

Can I ask, why would the first one be 'will become' rather than 'becoming'? If she's talking about the passing days he's not here that are already happening, I thought it'd be the latter.

She doesn't seem to be able to get over/overcome(超える) the days he is not here yet to me.

Oh, I see what you mean. So she's talking about 超える (which in this sense means overcoming as in getting used to/ getting over the fact he's not here?) in a way she's not really sure or happy about doing it, but she'll eventually become an adult and forget about it, or at least that's what she's wondering?

Yeah, she might equate becoming an adult with getting over these things.

I see, thank you for your help!