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There are loads of tenses in french, there’s no one ‘future tense’ but the most elementary future tenses that you should know are the simple future and the near future.

The near future is essentially ‘X is going to Y’.

To form the near future, you take the present tense form of aller that matches your subject (e.g. vais for ‘je’, va for ‘elle’, vont for ‘mes amis’), and the infinitive form of whatever they are doing. The infinitive is just the ‘to’ form of the verb, ending in -ER, -RE, or -IR, so like ‘manger’ or ‘avoir’.

For example,
"I am going to eat" - "Je vais manger"
"We are going to dance" - "Nous allons dancer"
"Sacha is going to sing" - "Sacha va chanter"

shrewd wing
shrewd wing
spare hemlock
# spare hemlock There are loads of tenses in french, there’s no one ‘future tense’ but the most ...

The simple future is like "X will Y" in English.

To form the simple future, you use the infinitive of your verb as the root and add an ending that agrees with your subject. The only caveat is that if the infinitive ends in -RE, you remove the ‘e’. E.g. ‘perdre’ becomes ‘perdr’ before you add the ending. We say ‘il perdra’, not ‘il perdrea’

The endings are the same for all verbs, they only change depending on the subject. See the image attached. :)

For example, manger:
Je mangerai - I will eat
Tu mangeras - You will eat
Il mangera - He will eat
Nous mangerons - We will eat
Vous mangerez - You will eat
Ils mangeront - They will eat

Unlike with near future, there are some irregular verbs in the simple future. You can google which are irregular, but the most important ones are:

  • Avoir, which becomes ‘aur’ + ending (e.g. j’aurai, tu auras)
  • Être, which becomes ‘ser’ + ending (e.g. je serai, tu seras)
  • Aller, which becomes ‘ir’ + ending (e.g. j’irai, tu iras)
  • Faire, which becomes ‘fer’ + ending (e.g. je ferai, tu feras)
spare hemlock
mossy canyon
# shrewd wing thank you for the links!

For extra information, the future simple endings are derived from present conjugations of avoir:
parler + (je) ai = je parlerai
parler + (tu) as = tu parleras
parler + (il) a = il parlera
parler + (nous) avons = nous parlerons
parler + (vous) avez = vous parlerez
parler + (ils) ont = ils parleront
This pattern will help you later down the line with the futur antérieur (future perfect) as it is formed with the simple future of the auxiliary plus the participle.
It will also help you with the conditional present and past because the logic is the same but this time they're derived from the imperfect endings.