| Let's look at the sentence patterns. |
| But first, let's get familiar with future simple conjugations. |
| In French, this is how you form the futur simple, or simple future tense. |
| The future tense endings are: -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont. |
| These endings are added directly to the infinitive form of the verb for regular -er and -ir verbs. |
| For -re verbs, you first drop the final e, then add the ending. |
| These patterns are the structures that our examples will follow. |
| Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows pattern A. |
| Pattern A |
| For -er and -ir verbs, the pattern is: |
| INFINITIVE VERB (-er / -ir) + [FUTURE TENSE ENDING] |
| Je visiterai Nice avec quelques amis. |
| "I will visit Nice with some friends." |
| In this sentence: |
| Visiterai is the future form of the verb visiter, meaning "to visit." |
| Visiter is a regular -er verb, so we follow Pattern A. |
| We keep the full infinitive visiter, and then we add the ending -ai, which is the first person singular (je) ending in the futur simple. |
| Je visiter + ai = Je visiterai |
| This means "I will visit." |
| The rest of the sentence is: |
| Nice – the name of a city in France, the destination. |
| Avec quelques amis – meaning "with some friends." |
| So, Je visiterai Nice avec quelques amis fits the pattern: |
| INFINITIVE VERB (-er) + FUTURE ENDING, and translates as "I will visit Nice with some friends." |
| Now, let's see how a line from the dialogue follows pattern B. |
| Pattern B |
| For -re verbs, the pattern is: |
| (INFINITIVE VERB without final 'e') + [FUTURE TENSE ENDING] |
| Non, je prendrai quelques cours d'été là-bas. |
| "No, I'll take some summer classes there." |
| In this sentence: |
| Prendrai is the future form of the verb prendre, meaning "to take." |
| Prendre is an irregular -re verb, so we follow Pattern B. |
| We start with the infinitive verb, prendre, and drop the final -e, which gives us prendr. |
| Then we add the future tense ending -ai, which is the first person singular, je, ending in the futur simple. |
| Je prendr + ai = je prendrai |
| This means "I will take." |
| The rest of the sentence is: |
| Quelques cours d'été – meaning "some summer classes" |
| Là-bas – meaning "over there" or "there" |
| So, Je prendrai quelques cours d'été là-bas follows the pattern: |
| INFINITIVE VERB (without final -e) + FUTURE TENSE ENDING, |
| and translates as "I will take some summer classes there." |
| Now you can use these structures to talk about things you will do in the future in French! |
| In French, irregular verbs are those that do not follow the regular conjugation patterns used for -er, -ir, or -re verbs in the future tense. |
| While regular verbs simply add future tense endings to the infinitive, Pattern A, or to the infinitive without the final -e, Pattern B, irregular verbs use completely different stems. |
| For example, instead of keeping the full infinitive form of avoir or être, these verbs use special stems in the future tense, like aur- for avoir and ser- for être. Then, we simply add the regular future endings to those stems. |
| These new stems often don't resemble the infinitive at all, which is what makes them irregular. Because they're so common—like aller, faire, and vouloir—learners encounter them early, and memorizing their stems is essential for speaking and understanding everyday French. |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Je parlerai à ma grand-mère. |
| "I will talk to my grandmother." |
| Can you see how the pattern applies here? |
| Let's break it down: |
| Here, je is the subject pronoun, meaning "I." |
| Next is parlerai, which comes from the infinitive verb parler, meaning "to talk." |
| Parler is a regular -er verb, so we follow the pattern for -er verbs in the futur simple: |
| INFINITIVE VERB + FUTURE ENDING. |
| The infinitive is parler, and the future tense ending for "je" is -ai. |
| So: parler + ai = parlerai |
| This gives us je parlerai, meaning "I will talk." |
| Then we have à ma grand-mère, meaning "to my grandmother." |
| So, the sentence Je parlerai à ma grand-mère follows the future simple pattern and translates as "I will talk to my grandmother." |
| Here's another example that follows pattern A, |
| Je n'utiliserai pas mon ordinateur. |
| "I will not use my computer." |
| Je n'utiliserai pas mon ordinateur. |
| "I will not use my computer." |
| Let's try one more with pattern B, |
| J'apprendrai le japonais. |
| "I will learn Japanese." |
| J'apprendrai le japonais. |
| "I will learn Japanese." |
| Another one using pattern A, |
| Je ne visiterai pas Paris cette année, mais je visiterai la France l'année prochaine. |
| "I will not visit Paris this year, but I will visit France next year." |
| Je ne visiterai pas Paris cette année, mais je visiterai la France l'année prochaine. |
| "I will not visit Paris this year, but I will visit France next year." |
| One last example, using an irregular verb, aurons, which is the future tense form of the verb avoir "to have" |
| Nous aurons du beau temps. |
| "We will have nice weather." |
| Nous aurons du beau temps. |
| "We will have nice weather." |
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