Practice conjugating verbs in the future simple tense
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| Do you know how to talk about future actions in Italian? |
| Welcome to Three Step Italian Practice by ItalianPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice the simple future tense. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Grazie per il pranzo! È tutto buonissimo. |
| "Thank you for the lunch! Everything is so good." |
| Prego. Isabella, cosa farai quest'estate? |
| "You're welcome. Isabella, what are you going to do this summer?" |
| cosa farai quest'estate |
| farai |
| Let's look at how the simple future tense works in Italian. |
| This is called the futuro semplice, or simple future. It's used to talk about something that will happen. |
| To form it, we use a special set of future tense endings: |
| -ò, -ai, -à, -emo, -ete, -anno |
| For regular -are, -ere, and -ire verbs, drop the final -e from the infinitive and then add the ending. |
| With -are verbs, also change the -a to -e before attaching the ending. |
| For example: |
| parlare becomes parlerai — "you will talk." |
| prendere becomes prenderai — "you will take." |
| dormire becomes dormirai — "you will sleep." |
| Some verbs are irregular, meaning they don't follow the regular patterns. Instead, they use a special stem in the future tense but still take the same endings. |
| For example: |
| avere becomes avr-, so avrai means "you will have." |
| essere becomes sar-, leading to sarai, "you will be." |
| Now let's try using some of these forms in full sentences. |
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