Spanish Future Tense, Regular Verbs Conjugation

Good news! Did you know that the Future tense is very easy to conjugate?
We already know that when conjugating a Spanish verb, we have to:

1. Take the stem

2. Add the corresponding endings to that stem, according to the tense.

So, for example, if we want to conjugate the Imperfect for the (regular) verb 'andar', we have to take its stem: 'and-', and add the imperfect endings:
(yo) and-aba
(tu) and-abas
(el/ella) and-aba
etc...
All the contrary, if we want to conjugate the Furute Tense, we don't need to take the stem of the verb, but just the INFINITIVE and then attach the future endings to it.

FUTURE ENDINGS:
(yo) andar-é
(tu) andar-ás
(el/ella) andar-á
(nosotros) andar-emos
(vosotros) andar-éis
(ellos/ellas) andar-án
And another good thing is that there are few irregular verbs in future tense!

First, let's learn how to conjugate Regular Verbs in Future: As you can see below, the table shows the conjugation for First, Second and Third Conjugation Verbs, that's: verbs ending in -ar, -er and -ir.

FUTURE TENSE CONJUGATION - Regular Verbs

Sample Verbs: Andar (To walk), Comer (To eat), Vivir (To live) [These are infinitives](Click on any form and listen how it is pronounced)

	Andar (First Conjugation Verb) (I'll walk...)	Comer (Second Conjugation Verb) (I'll eat...)	Vivir (Third Conjugation Verb) (I'll live...)
Yo	andaré	comeré	viviré
Tú	andarás	comerás	vivirás
Él / Ella / Usted	andará	comerá	vivirá
Nosotros / Nosotras	andaremos	comeremos	viviremos
Vosotros / Vosotras	andaréis<	comeréis	viviréis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	andarán	comerán	vivirán

Note that these three types use the same Future endings:

	Future T. endings	Andar (I'll walk...)	Comer (I'll eat...)	Vivir( (I'll live...)
Yo	-é	andar-é	comer-é	vivir-é
Tú	-ás	andar-ás	comer-ás	vivir-ás
Él / Ella / Usted	-á	andar-á	comer-á	vivir-á
Nosotros / Nosotras	-emos	andar-emos	comer-emos	vivir-emos
Vosotros / Vosotras	-éis	andar-éis	comer-éis	vivir-éis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	-án	andar-án	comer-án	vivir-án

Hope this helps!

See also:

Spanish Future tense

Grammar and free exercises about the Spanish Future tense.

Spanish Simple Future Tense

Play this millionaire style game to practice the simple future tense. (From Quia.com)

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