BEGINNER2. LESSON #30. WHAT DO I KNOW ?
Lesson 30 ! And you can now express events that are going to happen.
Let’s sum up today what we discovered about the French future tense…
- First we learnt that endings are the same for every verb of every group. We just have to remember them :
- Then we saw that –er verbs are easy to conjugate : we take their infinitive form and we just need to add future endings.
- We also saw that verbs from the other groups are quite easy too to conjugate : for most of them, we take the infinitive form, we remove the final –e (if there is one) then we add future tense endings.
- But of course we also spoke about exceptions (because it seems like we love exceptions in French…) There are some verbs (but not that much, about two dozens) that have an irregular stem. We saw some of them.
- Let’s discover today other useful irregular verbs :
Lesson 30 ! And you can now express events that are going to happen.
Let’s sum up today what we discovered about the French future tense…
- First we learnt that endings are the same for every verb of every group. We just have to remember them :
-ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, ont
- Then we saw that –er verbs are easy to conjugate : we take their infinitive form and we just need to add future endings.
Je m’occuperai, tu le décoreras, nous dessinerons, vous poserez.
- We also saw that verbs from the other groups are quite easy too to conjugate : for most of them, we take the infinitive form, we remove the final –e (if there is one) then we add future tense endings.
Je les ouvrirai, je le mettrai, je les cuirai.
- But of course we also spoke about exceptions (because it seems like we love exceptions in French…) There are some verbs (but not that much, about two dozens) that have an irregular stem. We saw some of them.
être (future stem : ser-)
aller (future stem : ir-)
falloir (future stem : faudr-)
aller (future stem : ir-)
falloir (future stem : faudr-)
- Let’s discover today other useful irregular verbs :
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Avoir |
Pouvoir |
Savoir |
Faire |
Voir |
Vouloir |
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J’aurai |
Je pourrai |
Je saurai |
Je ferai |
Je verrai |
Je voudrai |
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Tu auras |
Tu pourras |
Tu sauras |
Tu feras |
Tu verras |
Tu voudras |
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Il aura |
Il pourra |
Il saura |
Il fera |
Il verra |
Il voudra |
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Nous aurons |
Nous pourrons |
Nous saurons |
Nous ferons |
Nous verrons |
Nous voudrons |
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Vous aurez |
Vous pourrez |
Vous saurez |
Vous ferez |
Vous verrez |
Vous voudrez |
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Ils auront |
Ils pourront |
Ils sauront |
Ils feront |
Ils verront |
Ils voudront |
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Translate in English : 1. Demain, mes parents seront à la maison avec nous. 2. J’aurai des cadeaux. 3. Nous irons au musée. 4. Vous prendrez le métro. 5. On dirait que le Père Noël est passé. 6. Elle est polie, cette petite fille ! 7. A Noël, il y a un sapin, une crèche et des cadeaux. Translate in French : 1. I will be nice. 2. You will see black panthers at the zoo. 3. My mom will make a chocolate cake. 4. Merry Christmas ! 5. We will go to school at 8 :30. 6. They will cook a very good meal for Christmas. 7. She will have a big and nice present. |
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