Le futur simple

 So far this year, we have learned the present tense (to talk about things that are happening now) and the past tense (to talk about things that already happened). But what if we want to talk about something that will happen? For that, we need a whole new tense: the futur simple.

 It’s easy! All you do is add the endings to the infinitive, and you’ve got it! The endings for futur simple are:  je -ainous-ons  tu-asvous-ez  il-ails-ont  elle-aelles-ont  on-aqui-a

 Regardez ces exemples:  regarder nous regarder ons we will watch  choisirtu choisir as you will choose  Vendre elle vendr a she will sell

 There’s one little trick to remember. Look at the example with “vendre” again. Do you see what we did? That’s right, we dropped the “e” before we added our ending. That wasn’t so bad, was it?

 Ok, so some of the verbs don’t like to follow the rules. To be perfectly honest a lot of the verbs don’t like to follow the rules. There is no trick to learning them, they just have to be memorized.

 Here they are:  aller  ir-j’ ir aiI will go  avoir  aur- tu aur asyou will have  devoir  devr-il devr ahe will have to  être  ser-elle ser ashe will be  faire  fer-nous fer onswe will do / make

 Here they are:  pouvoir  pourr-vous pourr ezyou will be able to  recevoir  recevr-ils recevr ontthey will receive  savoir  saur-elles saur ontthey will know  venir  viendr-on viendr awe will come

 Here they are:  devenir  deviendr-qui deviendr awho will become  Revenir  reviendr-je reviendr aiI will come back  voir  verr-nous verr onswe will see  vouloir  voudr-elles voudr ontthey will want

 There are also some verbs that have accents or consonants added to them in the futur simple because of pronunciation. Take a look:  acheter  tu ach è terasyou will buy  jeter  vous jet t erezyou will throw  appeler  qui appel l erawho will call

 That’s it! You have learned your last verb tense for grade 9 French. You can now talk about things that are happening, have already happened, and will happen. Congratulations!

 Pendant que vous écoutez le poème suivant, encerclez tous les verbes qui apparaissent au futur simple. “Demain, dès l’aube”