The Future Tense

Formation

There is 1 set of conjugations for regular verbs in the future tense.

This tense is formed by adding the endings to the infinitive of the verb.

Here are the endings for all regular verbs.

	singular	plural
first person	é	emos
second person	ás	éis
third person	á	án

yo hablare                           I will talk
tú hablarás                               You will talk
él/ella/usted hablará                 He/She/You formal will talk
nosotros hablaremos            We will talk
ellos/ellas/ustedes hablarán    They/you (plural) formal will talk

Usage

The future tense, as the name implies, is used with events that may or may not take place in the future. 

 IR + A + Infinitive Future

Remember though that in everyday conversation you are more likely to hear the "informal" future, which is the ir + a + infinitive construction. This is the equivalent of 'I am going to the party tomorrow" where the present tense conjugation of 'IR' covers for the future part of this sentence ('am going'). Let's see some examples:


I am going to eat tonight             Yo voy a comer esta noche

It breaks down as follows:

I = Yo (pronoun for pronoun)
am going = voy
to = a
eat = comer
tonight = esta noche


This break down is key! My students constantly try to literally translate 'going' with its Spanish 'ing' equivalent, Don't! 


The Spanish present tense conjugation of "IR" covers for this. Let's do some more.


You are going to school        Tu vas a la escuela


They are going to play          Ellos van a jugar


We are going to study           Nosotros vamos a estudiar


He is going to run                 El va a correr





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Luis