Spanish Future Tenses
Dec. 16th, 2017 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebThe Spanish course in Language Transfer has an interesting way to remember the future tense:
1) Remember how to conjugate haber: he, has, ha, hemos, han
2) Stick those sounds at the end of the infinitive you want to conjugate. In other words, add the whole word except the "h" to the end.
3) Then move the accent to the last syllable, or the future-most part of the word.
For example, I will eat is "comeré."
Not that it matters too much; future tense is not used very often in Spanish. They usually use the present tense. Like we do!
a) They say they are going to do things.
b) They add words that indicate the future, such as saying they are doing things later.
Unlike in English, though, they don't use the -ing form (present progressive tense) for this. They just use the regular present tense: Voy a comer, Como mañana. That's (at least part of) what our teachers were talking about when they kept saying that the present progressive tense is only for things that are actually happening right now: Estoy comiendo.
1) Remember how to conjugate haber: he, has, ha, hemos, han
2) Stick those sounds at the end of the infinitive you want to conjugate. In other words, add the whole word except the "h" to the end.
3) Then move the accent to the last syllable, or the future-most part of the word.
For example, I will eat is "comeré."
Not that it matters too much; future tense is not used very often in Spanish. They usually use the present tense. Like we do!
a) They say they are going to do things.
b) They add words that indicate the future, such as saying they are doing things later.
Unlike in English, though, they don't use the -ing form (present progressive tense) for this. They just use the regular present tense: Voy a comer, Como mañana. That's (at least part of) what our teachers were talking about when they kept saying that the present progressive tense is only for things that are actually happening right now: Estoy comiendo.