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Level 80 - Simple Future Tense

In Level 52 we learnt how to talk about what is going to happen by using the verb aller 'to go'. This is probably the easiest way to do it, but there is another way to do this in French and it is called the simple future tense. To make it, simply add the following endings (which look like the present tense fo the verb avoir 'to have') onto the infinitive of the verb you want to use, taking the final e off -re verbs:

je
tu
il / elle / on
nous
vous
ils / elles
  -ai
-as
-a
-ons
-ez
-ont

Examples

j'arriverai
tu vendras
il / elle / on finira
nous penserons
vous prendrez
ils / elles changeront
  I will arrive
you will sell
he / she / one will finish
we will think
you will take
they will change

Exceptions

As with the conditional (Level 77), there are irregular stems. They are être 'to be' (ser-), avoir 'to have (aur-), aller 'to go' (ir-), faire 'to do / make' (fer-) and vouloir 'to want' (voudr-). Here are some examples of those verbs in action:

je serai très content
tu en auras besoin
il ira demain
elle le fera facilement
nous voudrons y aller
  I will be very happy
you will need some
he will go tomorrow
she will do it easily
we will want to go there

This is the end

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