Spanish Irregular Future Tense

Irregular Spanish Future Tense

The irregularities in the future tense are a bit difficult to predict. You will be happy to know that ser and estar, which are irregular in almost every other tense, are completely regular in the future. It’s the following that you have to look out for:

	Irregular –ER verbs		Irregular –IR verbs
	SABER to know	PONER to put	VENIR to come	SALIR to leave, go out
yo	sabré	pondré	vendré	saldré
tú	sabrás	pondrás	vendrás	saldrás
Ud., él, ella,	sabrá	pondrá	vendrá	saldrá
nosotros/as	sabremos	pondremos	vendremos	saldremos
vosotros/as	sabréis	pondréis	vendréis	saldréis
Uds., ellos, ellas	sabrán	pondrán	vendrán	saldrán

You will notice that the irregular –er verbs drop the –e from the infinitive ending, while the irregular –ir verbs replace the –i with an –r.

Other common verbs that follow this irregularity are:

poder: podré, podrás, podrá, podremos, podréis, podrán
querer: querré, querrás, querrá, querremos, querréis, querrán
tener: tendré, tendrás, tendrá, tendremos, tendréis, tendrán
valer: valdré, valdrás, valdrá, valdremos, valdréis, valdrán

There are two verbs that have an even stranger stem change in the future tense. You will simply have to memorize these.

	HACER to make, to do	DECIR to say, to tell
yo	haré	diré
tú	harás	dirás
Ud., él, ella,	hará	dirá
nosotros/as	haremos	diremos
vosotros/as	haréis	diréis
Uds., ellos, ellas	harán	dirán

Por ejemplo:

In the next section we'll talk about the Unusual Way of Using the Future Tense

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