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Forming the future tense

The future tense in French can be formed in two ways.


Method 1- "I am going to do x"

To form the simple future:

  1. Take the correct conjugation of aller- je vais, tu vas, il/elle/on va, nous allons, vous allez, ils/elles vont
  2. Take the verb which you wish to express in the future and write the infinitive


For example- Je (1) vais (2) aller à la discothèque


Method 2

To form this future tense, take the infinitive and add the endings of avoir in the present tense (ai, as, a, ons, ez, ont). However, drop the -e from -re verbs- for example vendre becomes vendr- + appropriate ending.


The following stems are irregular, and therefore do not follow the above pattern:

aller- ir-
avoir- aur-
courir- courr-
devoir- devr-
envoyer- enverr-
être- ser-
faire- fer-
falloir- faudr-
mourir- mourr-
pleuvoir- pleuvr-
pouvoir- pourr-
recevoir- recevr-
savoir- saur-
tenir- tiendr-
valoir- vaudr-
venir- viendr-
voir- verr-
vouloir- voudr-

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