Practice conjugating verbs in the future simple tense
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| Do you know how to talk about future actions in French? |
| Welcome to Three Step French Practice by FrenchPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice the simple future tense. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Je visiterai Nice avec quelques amis. |
| "I will visit Nice with some friends." |
| Oh, tu iras à la plage ? Tu ne vas pas chercher du travail ? |
| "Oh, you're going to the beach? Aren't you going to look for a job?" |
| Je visiterai |
| visiterai |
| Let's look at how the future tense works in French. |
| This is called the futur simple, or simple future. It's used to talk about something that will happen. |
| To form it, we use a special set of future tense endings: |
| -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont |
| For regular -er and -ir verbs, we add these endings directly to the infinitive—the full form of the verb. |
| For example: |
| visiter becomes je visiterai |
| That means, "I will visit." |
| For -re verbs, we drop the final -e before adding the ending. |
| For example: |
| prendre becomes je prendrai, |
| meaning "I will take." |
| Some verbs are irregular and don't use the whole infinitive. |
| They start with a special stem and then add the same endings. |
| For example: |
| être becomes je serai – "I will be" |
| avoir becomes j'aurai – "I will have" |
| Let's practice using the future tense in some simple sentences. |
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