The Future Tense


The Future tense: it's the easiest of all the tenses to conjugate

The future tense is used to express an action or state of being that will take place at some time in the future.

Por ejemplo:

Lo haré – I will do it.
Iremos al cine esta noche – we will go to the cinema tonight.

As well as conjugating the verb in the future tense, you can also use the verb ir to create the future tense:

Lo haré (Voy a hacerlo)
Iremos al cine esta noche (vamos a ir al cine esta noche)

Spaniards use this form of future tense, so don’t worry about doing it this way.

In Spanish, the future tense is also used for:

1.     Conjecture regarding the present:

a.     ¿Qué hora sera? – I wonder what time it is.
b.    ¿Quién será a la puerta? – Who can that be at the door?

2.    Probability regarding the present:

a.     Serán las cinco – it is probably five o’clock
b.    Él tendrá muchos amigos – he must have many friends
c.     María estará enferma – Maria must be sick

To form the future tense take the whole of the verb (the infinitive) and add the following endings:

Yo – é                           Tu – ás                         Él, ella, usted – á
Nosotros – emos          Vosotros – éis              Ellos, ellas, ustedes – án

The accents are important because the stress will tell the listener that you’ve used the future tense. Endings are the same for –er, -ar and –ir verbs. Let’s look at the three verbs we’ve been using with our tenses guide: hablar, beber and recibir.

Yo                    hablaré            beberé             recibiré
Tu                    hablarás          beberás           recibirás
Usted              hablará            beberá             recibirá
Nos                  hablaremos      beberemos       recibiremos
Vos                  hablaréis         beberéis          recibiréis
Ustedes           hablarán          beberán           recibirán

This rule even works with our favourite irregulars – ir, ser and estar.


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