"He will go to Japan in two weeks."

Translation: 他两个星期后会去日本。

[Ofeck1]

Why does the 后 come after 两个星期?

[NasuSamaruk0]

This is the grammatical rule when specifying time. 后 and 前 are the common characters that are supposed to be placed after the specified time.

Playing around with the given English sentence, we have:

• The subject is placed first in the sentence.
• "In two weeks" being placed between subject-and-action, and then worded as "two weeks after".
• The action "will go to Japan" is placed last.

So the worded sentence is literally "He, two weeks after, will go to Japan". Translate, so we have the answer.

[Jean-Miche357968]

Could some one explain why we need 会 in this sentence ? I understood that once the futur is contained in the sentence i.e ”两个星期后“ the verb should not be preceded by 会.