the Spanish simple future

when to use it

Use it for what will happen rather than what is planned, and for predictions. In a written answer it reads a little more formally than the near future, which makes it useful when you want to show range.

Words that tend to sit with it: mañana, el año que viene, en el futuro, la próxima semana

• el año que viene estudiaré más ~ next year I will study more
• iremos a México ~ we will go to Mexico

how to build it

Don't remove anything - add the ending to the WHOLE infinitive (hablar + é = hablaré).

one verb from each group

The three regular patterns side by side, so the only thing changing between columns is the group the verb belongs to.

what goes wrong

Chopping the ending off the infinitive first. Nothing is removed here: hablar plus é is hablaré, not hablé - and hablé is the preterite, which says the opposite.

The endings never change. About a dozen verbs shorten their stem before taking them - tendré, podré, haré, saldré, diré - and those same stems are used in the conditional, so learning them once covers both tenses.

common questions

what are the future tense endings in Spanish?

-é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án, added to the complete infinitive. They are the same for -ar, -er and -ir verbs without exception, so hablar gives hablaré, comer gives comeré and vivir gives viviré.

which verbs are irregular in the Spanish future tense?

About a dozen, and they change only the stem, never the endings: tener gives tendr-, poder gives podr-, hacer gives har-, decir gives dir-, salir gives saldr-, poner gives pondr-, venir gives vendr-, querer gives querr-, saber gives sabr- and haber gives habr-. The same stems are used in the conditional.