Français III – Leçon 4B Structures Le futur simple Irregular futur forms

Le futur In French I, you learned to use aller + [infinitive] to talk about things that are going to happen in the immediate future. Je vais nager. (I’m going to swim) Nous allons aller a l’école. (We’re going to go to school.) This is called le future proche.

Le future simple is another way to talk about the future Le future simple is another way to talk about the future. It is used to say what will happen. Compare these two sentences: Le future proche Je vais nager = I’m going to swim. Le future simple Je nagerai = I will swim.

You form the future simple for regular –er and –ir verbs by adding the future endings to the infinitive. parler je parlerai tu parleras il/elle/on parlera nous parlerons vous parlerez ils/elles parleront choisir je choisirai tu choisiras il/elle/on choisira nous choisirons vous choisirez ils/elles choisiront

For regular –re verbs, drop the –e from the infinitive and add the future endings. attendre j’attendrai tu attendras il/elle/on attendra nous attendrons vous attendrez ils/elle attendront

On étudie le futur en cours. The words le futur and l’avenir(m.) both mean future. Use the first word when referring to the grammatical future; use the second word when referring to events that haven’t occurred yet. On étudie le futur en cours. (We’re studying the future tense in class.) Je parlerai de mon avenir au prof. (I’ll speak to the teacher about my future.)

Irregular futur simple forms Although the futur simple endings are the same for all verbs, (-ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont), some verbs use irregular stems in the future tense. You will need to memorize these verbs and their stems.

infinitive stem future form aller j’irai ir- apercevoir apercevr- j’apercevrai avoir aur- j’aurai devoir devr- je devrai envoyer enverr- j’enverrai être ser- je serai

faire fer- je ferai pouvoir pourr- je pourrai recevoir recevr- je recevrai savoir saur- je saurai viendr- je viendrai venir vouloir voudr- je voudrai

Other future forms: Il y a  il y aura Il faut  il faudra The verbs devenir, maintenir, retenir, revenir, and tenir are patterned after venir in the future tense, just as they are in the present tense. Other future forms: Il y a  il y aura Il faut  il faudra -il pleut  il pleuvra