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Spanish Verbs: Future Tense
Saber & Poder
Model Question and Answer: Supply the future tense of the verbs in parentheses. Q: Yo no sé si (poder) venir a tiempo. |
Useful Grammar For This Quiz
All verbs have regular endings in the future tense, but a few common verbs have irregular stems. In the verbs saber and poder, the e of the infinitive is simply dropped.
| See: | saber | |
| See: | poder |
Two other verbs conjugated in the same way as saber and poder are caber and haber.
NOTE: Haber as an independent or principal verb has the following forms in the present, past, past imperfect, and future tenses: hay, hubo, había, habrá. I.e., 3rd person singular only. As a principal verb, haber is the equivalent of the English there is or there are.
Hay muchos estudiantes ausentes hoy.
There are many students absent today.
Habrá muchos estudiantes ausentes mañana.
There will be many students absent tomorrow.
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Poner / Tener / Salir / Venir
Model Question and Answer: Supply the future tense of the verbs in parentheses. Q: Enrique (tener) que estudiar más. |
Two other common verbs, having regular endings, but irregular stems in the future are poner and tener. In these verbs the letter d replaces the characteristic e of the infinitive.
| See: | poner | |
| See: | tener |
Two other verbs conjugated in the future in the same way as poner and tener are salir and venir.
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Querer, Hacer, and Decir
Model Question and Answer: Supply the future tense of the verbs in parentheses. Q: Nosotros no le (decir) nada a Elena. |
The three remaining verbs which are irregular in the future tense and which we have yet to study are querer, hacer, and decir. Again, the endings of these three verbs are regular in the future but their stems undergo a change. Their conjugations follow.
| See: | querer | |
| See: | hacer | |
| See: | decir |
