Using the Simple Future to express a possibility?

Question

Can I use the future tense to express a possibility, or predict the future, rather than saying something I will surely do?For example, if I say _andrò a casa di mio cugino_ (literally, "I will go to my cousin's house"), does that mean I am surely going to my cousin's house, or is that also understood as "there is a possibility I will go to my cousin's house"?To make another example, in English "I will come to live in Italy" can express something I am willing to do, not something I surely going to do; for some circumstances, the person saying that sentence could not be able to come to live in Italy, for example because she cannot sell her house. What mood or tense should I use in that case, in Italian?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use the futuro semplice to say that. Italian is a very flexible language and adverbs (and the context) defines the meaning. For instance, an adverb like "probabilmente" or a verb like "credo che, penso che" before the future will attribute a sense of possibility and wish to the sample future