IL FUTURO

The future is a simple tense expressing an event that will take place in the future. Until now you have seen the future tense expressed with the present tense

Parto domani per Italia= I leave tomorrow for ItalyFaccio i compiti domani = I (will) do the HW tomorrow

Please turn to pagina 256 in your textbooks.

The future tense in Italian expresses an action that will take place in the future. Although in English the future is expressed with the helping verb "will" or the phrase "to be going to," in Italian a verb ending marks it as being set in the future tense.

For example:

Alla fine di settembre partirò per Roma. (At the end of September I will leave for Rome.)

Domani comprerò una macchina (Tomorrow I will buy a car)

FUTURO SEMPLICE –ARE VERBS

The future tense (futuro semplice) of first-conjugation regular (-are) verbs is formed first by changing the infinitive ending -are into -er to obtain the root for the future tense. The following future endings are then added to the root: -ò, -ai, -à, -emo, -ete, -anno.

Cantare become Cantere (and then drop “e”)

Canter-

FUTURO SEMPLICE CANTARE

SINGULAR PLURAL

io canterò noi canteremo

tu canterai voi canterete

(lui, lei, Lei) canterà (loro, Loro) canteranno

FUTURO SEMPLICE IRE and ERE verbs

Second- and Third-Conjugation VerbsThe future tense of regular second- and third-conjugation (-ere and -ire) verbs is formed by simply dropping the final -e of the infinitive to obtain the stem and adding to the stem the following future endings: -ò, -ai, -à, -emo, -ete, -anno (the same endings, in fact, as those added to the first-conjugation group). For a sample conjugation, see the table below, which conjugates the verbs credere and partire.

SINGULAR PLURAL

io crederò, partirò noi crederemo, partiremo

tu crederai, partirai voi crederete, partirete

(lui, lei, Lei) crederà, partirà

(loro, Loro) crederanno, partiranno

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word stem Future (io) Future (lui) Future (loro)

TROVARE Trover- troverò

SCRIVERE

PARTIRE

TELEFONARE

LEGGERE

SERVIRE

IL FUTURO SEMI IRREGULAR STEMS

Verbs that end in –care, -gare, -ciare, and -giare undergo a spelling change for phonetic reasons

For –care and –care verbs add an “h”

Pagare: pagherò, pagherai, pagherà

For -ciare and –giare drop the “i”

Cominciare: comincerò, comincerai, comincerà

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Voi pagherete

Loro cominceranno

Lei cambierà ( I know this was a trick) – This is not a - ciare or - giare verb

io mangerò

Tu cercherai

Noi giocheremo

IRREGULAR STEMS

Andare andr- Avere avr- Cadere cadr- Dovere dovr- Potere potr- Sapere sapr- Vedere vedr- Vivere vivr-

Essere sar-

Bere berr-

Venire verr-

Volere vorr-

Dare dar-

Fare far-

Stare star-

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FATE # 6 on Handout

Fine