Spanish Future Tense Conjugation

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Spanish Future Tense

The Spanish future tense is one of those rare tenses in Spanish that is reasonably uniformed in its conjugation as there are very few verbs that are actually irregular. Even more surprising is that those verbs that are irregular, are not too difficult to learn as they each follow a distinctive pattern…more about that shortly however, as we will first take a look at how regular verbs are conjugated in the future tense.

Unlike many of the other Spanish tenses, all verbs, whether they are -ar, -er or -ir verbs, use the same endings. These endings are attached to the infinitive of each verb.

Hablar – ‘to speak‘

• hablaré I will speak
• hablarás you will speak
• hablará he, she or it will speak
• hablaremos we will speak
• hablaréis you will speak (plural)
• hablarán they will speak

This conjugation applies to all verbs in Spanish as already mentioned but there are a small number of irregular verbs that are used frequently. All of these irregular verbs use the same endings as used for regular verbs and their irregularities are stem changes.

The irregular verbs in the future tense, accompanied by the irregular stem change are:

• caber ‘to fit‘ or ‘to be possible‘ -       caber becomes cabr
• decir ‘to say‘ -                                        decir becomes dir
• haber ‘to have‘ -                                     haber becomes habr
• hacer ‘to do‘ or ‘to make‘ -                 hacer becomes har
• poder ‘to be able to‘ or ‘can‘ -           poder becomes podre
• poner ‘to put‘ -                                        poner becomes pondr
• querer ‘to want‘ -                                   querer becomes querr
• saber ‘to know‘ -                                   saber becomes sabr
• salir ‘to leave‘ -                                    salir becomes saldr
• tener ‘to have‘ -                                     tener becomes tendr
• valer ‘to cost‘ -                                       valer becomes valdr
• venir ‘to come‘ -                                    venir becomes vendr

Remember that the future tense for irregular verbs is formed exactly as for regular verbs and that the irregular stems are used instead of the full infinitive.

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