Find out what are the verbal tenses of the FUTURE in Spanish

Verbs have Different times to indicate when the action is taking place. That is, if it is developing in the present, in the future or in the past. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will see what are the verb tenses of the future in Spanish. You can check their uses and how each of them are formed with examples so that the concepts are much clearer.

Index

1. The simple future, one of the verb tenses of the future
2. Composite future
3. The near future

The verbs expressed in the future are those that show an action that has not yet taken place. For this they are used different verb tenses with its own uses and peculiarities, but always with what is going to happen as a common denominator. Within the future verb tenses we can find three:

• Simple future
• Composite future
• Near future

The simple future

It is a simple verb tense that you use to express an action, condition or state that will take place sometime in the future. It has different uses:

• To express planned actions that are safe.
• To make predictions or indicate probabilities: in this case actions or situations of the present are always taken as references.
• Express the intention to take an action in the future.

Let's see several examples of each of these uses:

• We will go to your house next week.
• We will buy that car.
• We will sleep at your house.
• If he continues like this he will not pass the exam.
• The food will not be eaten.
• On Monday I will start the diet.
• Next week he will go to live in Australia.
• He will start studying English next month.
• I will look for work when I finish studying.

For his part to be able combine any simple future tense will only be necessary to add the pertinent endings to the stem.

The compound future is also one of the most common future tenses. It is also known as future perfect and is used when we want express an action that will have already been completed in the future, rather than an action that will happen then. That is, when we want to show that something will be happening in the future while another action has already ended. The future compound is used to express a assumption about something that would have happened in the past.

An assumption regarding an action that will have already ended at a specific moment in the future. In this case it will always be necessary to accompany it with a temporary expression. Let's see an example of each of its uses to understand it better:

• Mario has not arrived, he will have missed the bus.
• It's weird, his car will have broken down.
• Next year he will have finished his studies.
• The plane will have been delayed.
• The dog is sick, he must have eaten something he shouldn't have.

To conjugate any verb in the future compound it will be necessary that we always use the Auxiliar verbto have in simple future together with the main verb in participle. In this case we will use the participle of the verb cantar: cantado.

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And the last of the future tenses is the near future, a tense that is always used by means of a verbal conjunction formed by the verb go in personal form plus the preposition a followed by the main verb in the infinitive. Namely:

To go (person form) + to + Infinitive verb.

Its use is to express in the present an action that makes sense of the near future in the time. It is usually used when we refer to actions that are planned and that we will carry out very soon when we speak. These examples will help you understand it better:

• I'm going to my grandmother's house this afternoon.
• You're going straight to bed.
• Julián will go to Mexico next month.
• You will go to the other part of the soccer field.
• My class is going on a field trip to the museum next Friday.
• The neighbors will go to the meeting on Saturday.

Therefore, if we want to conjugate a verb in the near future we must use the verb to go conjugate and add the preposition to plus the main verb in the infinitive:

Me I go (first person singular in Present) to (preposition) to go (infinitive) tomorrow.

Although this can also be used with other verb tenses using the verb to go conjugated in different verb tenses. Let's see some examples:

• Me was going to study, but they called me on the phone.
• He was going to eat when she came looking for her friend.
• My mother will go to see me when she has already installed me.
• You you will go to play when you finish your homework.
• Me I would go to cinema if it weren't so expensive.
• He would go to walk if it wasn't so cold.
• I do not think that go to buy that house.
• Possibly not go to come this afternoon.

Now you know what the verb tenses of the future are. We invite you to continue diving in our section of Spanish language to continue finding content like this that can help you improve your knowledge.

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