CSG080

The Futurę and the Conditional

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ejercicio

En espańol.

1.    You (tu) will prepare dinner. _

2.    The children shall not climb the trees. _

3.    The sales clerk will add up the bill (la cuenta).

4.    Carly’s mother will not talk to her neighbor. _

5.    My friends will eat at “La Yalentina.” _

6.    My sister and I will wait. _

Irregular Verbs in the Futurę Tense

There are relatively few irregular verbs in the futurę tense. They follow one of three patterns:

poner (toput), poder (to be able), and decir (to tell).

• Yerbs like poner drop the e or i of the infinitive and add the consonant d: pon(e)dre. poner (to put) pondre, pondras, pondra, pondremos, pondreis, pondran

Yerbs like poner

I will/shall go out I will/shall have I will/shall be worth I will/shall sell

salir    to    leave,    to go out saldre

tener    to    have    tendre

valer    to    be worth    valdre

venir    to    come    vendre

• Yerbs like poder drop the vowel of the infinitive en tirely : pod(e)re. poder (to be able) podrę, podras, podrą, podręmos, podreis, podran Yerbs like poder

caber    to fi t

haber    there is

querer    to want

saber    to know

cabre    I will/shall    fit (suit), etc.

habra    there will be

querre    I will/shall    want, etc.

sabre    I will/shall    know, etc.

• The verbs decir and hacer have irregular stems: dire and hare.

decir (to tell) dire, diras, dira, dire mos, direis, diran hacer (to do) hare, haras, hara, haremos, hareis, haran

Remember that these irregularities occur only in the radical (or stem). Compounds of these verbs are also irregular. The endings are the same for regular and irregular verbs in the futurę tense.

The futurę of haber, when not used as an auxiliary verb in a perfect tense, translates there will be and is used in the third-person singular only:

Habra muchas sorpresas en la fiesta.    There will be many surpńses at the party.