Introduction. The article is devoted to the description of the temporal semantics of the grammatical forms of the future tense verb in the Udmurt language in the synchronic aspect. Grammatical forms of the future tense in the Udmurt language primarily convey temporal meanings, while they can acquire additional modal meanings due to the special specifics of the future tense as a language universal. The purpose of the article is to identify the types of temporal and semantic meanings of verb forms of the future tense in the Udmurt language. Materials and methods. The empirical basis of the study is made up of sentences from literary texts in the Udmurt language, extracted from the National Corpus of the Udmurt Language (more than 2,500 uses of the verb in the future tense forms were analyzed). The main research methods were the continuous sampling method, contextual analysis, and the descriptive method. Research results, discussion. The article systematizes the scientific works of domestic and foreign researchers devoted to the study of future tense and temporality. The conducted research made it possible to concretize and clarify the functions implemented with the help of future tense verb forms in the Udmurt language. For the first time, the results of the analysis of the temporal semantics of the future tense forms of the Udmurt verb are presented. It has been established that the Udmurt verb in the form of the future tense includes the following types of temporal and semantic meanings: a) the future is immediate; b) the future is distant; c) the future is gnomic; d) the future when expressing the usual. Conclusion. Forms of the future tense in the Udmurt language usually denote a reference to a specific single action in the future. The multiplicity of action can also be conveyed by the form we are considering, but this is a rarer phenomenon. The data obtained in the course of the study allow us to speak about a new typological classification of the temporal-semantic meanings of the future tense of the Udmurt verb.