Hi, this is Mara from MosaLingua! Welcome to our grammar tips series
to quickly learn Italian. Today we’ll talk about the future tense.
In Italian, the future is used to talk about things that
have not happened yet or things that are not sure. There
are many ways to talk about future actions
in Italian, let’s see some examples: - domani vado al mare (tomorrow, I go to the sea). Do you notice
something? What tense did I use? Exactly, the present tense!
I’ve a good news for you: in Italian we can talk about future
events also using, most of the times, the present.
Do you want to know why? There are words that help you understand it’s about
a future action. Which words? Here are some of them:
domani (tomorrow), la settimana prossima (next week), il mese prossimo (next month),
l'anno prossimo (next year), tra un'ora (in an hour). With these magic words you can avoid, at least
at the beginning, to learn how to conjugate verbs at the future tense and use the
present that you already know. Your message will be clear anyway because
you will use those expressions, that talk about an action that has not
happened yet, which is the future. Once you get comfortable with the
present, you can start memorizing and using the
actual future tense. Let’s see how to form it. For the regular
verbs it’s really simple: take the infinitive of the verb, remove the last
three letters, and then add these endings. For the verbs
with the infinitive in -are and -ere, you have to add -erò, -erai, -erà, -erete
-eranno. For the verbs with infinitive in -ire you have to add -irò, -irai, -irà,
-iremo, -irete, -iranno. Easy! Let’s see some sample sentences:
domani non lavorerò perché partirò per l’Italia. Tu invece cosa farai? (I won't work tomorrow as I'm going to Italy. What are you going to do?) As in
many languages, in Italian too there are irregular verbs, but don’t
worry! Now I’m gonna give you tips to memorize more easily the future
of irregolare verbs and use them without any problems. In fact, some follow a
identical pattern: andare (to go), avere (to have), potere (can) dovere (to have to), vedere (to see), vivere (to live).
You just have to remove the vowel in the centre and the final -e, then add the following endings -ò,
-ai, -à, -emo, -ete, -anno. And that’s the future of the irregular verbs!
Do not forget to learn first the verbs more commonly used in the daily
life, that will be useful to communicate. For example, learn the future
of the ausiliari verbs essere (to be) and avere (to have). The future of essere is: io sarò, tu
sarai, lui/lei sarà, noi saremo, voi sarete, essi saranno. The future of avere is:
io avrò, tu avrai, lui/lei avrà, noi avremo, voi avrete, essi avranno. Now give it a try
with the others. See? It’s not hard at all!
Then if you need help, below you can find details to learn how to
use most common irregular verbs in Italian. But learn them
gradually and with a lot of practice, otherwise it’ll be a long and boring
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