In Italian the simple future
tense is used to express actions that will take place in the future,
even if this is not always true. Italians, in fact, tend to use the
present tense also to describe future actions, especially when these
are near in time.The future tense can be used
also to express an hypothesis, a doubt or a guess.
Examples:
Domani
sera mangeremo
il tiramisù che ho preparato. = Tomorrow evening we will
eat the tiramisù that I preparedDove
andrete
in vacanza quest'anno? = Where will you go on vacation this
year?
Non
trovo i miei occhiali da sole. Forse saranno
nella borsa. = I can't find my sunglasses. Maybe they will be in the bag
Let's
start to study the future tense of the auxiliary verbs “essere”
and “avere”.
The
future in Italian, as we already studied for other tenses, is formed
by replacing the final endings of the infinitive form (-ARE, -ERE,
-IRE) with the endings you can see in the table below.
Bocelli
canterà all'Arena di Verona tra un
mese. = Bocelli will sing at the Arena of Verona in a monthQuando
venderete
l'appartamento? = When will you sell the apartment?Presto
partirò per Parigi. = I am leaving for Paris soon
The
verbs that end with -care and -gare
take the h before
the final endings in order to keep the hard sound.In
italian the future tense can be irregular for some verbs that lose
the vowel E, like the verb “avere” (avere = avrò)
andare → andrò
cadere → cadrò
dovere → dovrò
potere → potrò
sapere →
saprò
vivere → vivrò
vedere
→ vedrò
Other
verbs drop the vowel E and add a double erre.bere → berròtenere → terròrimanere → rimarròvenire → verrò
