Futuro - Spanish Future Tense

The future is one of the simplest Spanish tenses. There is only one set of endings and most verbs - even those which are irregular in the present tense - use their infinitive as the root of the conjugation.

To form the future tense of -AR, -ER, and -IR verbs, add the appropriate ending to the infinitive.

	Singular		Plural
1st person	yo	-é	nosotros	-emos
2nd person	tú	-ás	vosotros	-éis
3rd person	él ella Ud.	-á	ellos Uds.	-án

Some verbs have irregular future stems, but they still use the same endings as regular verbs. The following table lists verbs with irregular future stems (note that the stem always ends in R, and that these are the exact same as the irregular conditional stems):

Verb	Future stem	Similarly-conjugated verbs
caber	cabr-
decir	dir-
haber	habr-
hacer	har-
oír	oir- *
poder	podr-
poner	pondr-	componer, disponer, imponer, proponer, reponerse, suponer
querer	querr-
reír	reir- *	sonreír
saber	sabr-
salir	saldr-
tener	tendr-	contener, detener, mantener, obtener, retener
valer	valdr-
venir	vendr-

* These verbs lose their accent when used as future stems.

Here are examples of -AR, -ER, -IR, and irregular verbs in the future tense:

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