Tomorrow I am going to graduate from university. SIMILARLY, if the future event is CERTAIN, many times the present tense will do just fine: Yo lo contesto! I’ll get it! (The phone).No te preocupes, yo lo hago! Don’t worry, I’ll do it!.Some more examples of expressing future in the present tense are: In Spanish, we save time by just using the PRESENT instead of the FUTURE tense (you don’t even have to conjugate the future, how sweet is that?!) and it sounds way more colloquial and smooth. In English, we slop together the subject “I” with “Will” to make “I’ll”, ultimately to save time.
The second way is the easiest way to express future. NOW, LISTEN UP HERE FOR THE NATIVE SECRET. It is almost an exact translation of “I am going to do”, or “I’m gonna do”. The first way is by the far the most used way to express future. Let’s attack 1 and 2, our informal buddies, before we take on 3. Verb “ir” conjugated + a + infinitive verb
And if you’ve ever heard a German speaking English, you would notice that they do not occupy #1, and exclusively speak in #3- “I will do this… I will go there” (now those are people are efficient!!!). Ancient Amerindians believed the future was behind us (because we couldn’t see it) and the past was in front of us.
The perception of future differs from culture to culture. Your concerned roommates see you struggling to juggle all of your commitments and you consider dropping out and moving to the Amazon, but instead you get your life together and proclaim your PROMISE that you WILL finish your homework tomorrow!.Your concerned roommates see you binge watching Netflix again, and you shoo away their concern with a RAPID DECISION that you’ll just do your homework tomorrow.Your concerned roommates ask… “You’re going out AGAIN? Don’t you have homework!?” to which you respond that you have a PRIOR PLAN, and that you are going to do your homework with your study group tomorrow!.“I WILL do my homework tomorrow!!!” (a promise- with cogones!!!)Īll subtle differences, which can be imagined through the following scenarios:.“I’ll do my homework tomorrow” (rapid decision).“I am going to do my homework tomorrow” (indicating a prior plan).And when we stumble upon a Spanish grammar book for the first time and see 32 tenses, we naturally have an existential crisis and want to pull our hair out.įor us, the future is either one of THREE things: When we think of time, we generally see three planes: PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE. You’d be shocked to know how many people learn languages without ever analyzing their own! Here’s the deal- you may have noticed that I didn’t write future “ tense”, and that’s because before we jump into robotic conjugations, it behooves us English speakers to think about how WE use the future tense in Spanish.
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Today, we will be uncovering everything you need to know about the Simple Future tense, along with some powerful advice that will help you remember WHEN it’s applicable as well as give you a…īONUS TIP: when it can be swapped out for something easier! How to Express the Future in Spanish I spend all my time decoding the puzzles so that YOU don’t have to! Well, my friends, today YOU’RE in luck, because I’ve been spying on the Lordship and I have some exclusive insider info that will dramatically improve the way you learn the future tense in Spanish. I can almost hear the Royal Spanish Grammar Family scoffing form here, lording over their illusive intel and plotting how to take their secrets to the grave. I think you’d all agree with me when I say: learning the future tense in Spanish can be REALLY tough.Īnd let’s face it, extremely dry grammar content fluffed up with fancy jargon does NOT help you understand how to use it.
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