{"id":53304,"date":"2021-03-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/?p=53304"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:05:50","slug":"spanish-future-with-el-futuro-proximo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/spanish-future-with-el-futuro-proximo\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Future with el Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo: Spanish Lesson 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the forty-fifth lesson in our beginner-level Spanish course and we are going to learn how to describe events in the Future with el Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo.<\/p>\n<p>So far in the course, we have learned how to speak in <a href=\"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/spanish-present-tense-with-regular-verbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spanish Present Tense<\/a> to describe things we usually \/ always \/ never \/ sometimes \/ often \/ seldom do. Now we will see how to speak about the <strong>Spanish Future with<\/strong> <strong>el Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo<\/strong>. Later in the course, we will learn how to describe things from the past.<\/p>\n<p>Learning how to use the different tenses is fundamental to mastering Spanish. It is vital that we clearly understand the rules of how to conjugate (change the verb endings) for each grammar tense and in which circumstances each tense is used. El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo is used to describe plans and intentions in the near future and is similar to the English future tense with going to.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Spanish Future with<\/strong> <strong>El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo is a relatively straightforward Spanish grammar tense and one that is extremely useful. As with all tenses, we need to have a good <a href=\"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/commonly-used-irregular-spanish-verbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repertoire of verbs<\/a>, but when describing the <strong>Spanish Future with<\/strong> <strong>El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo <\/strong>we don\u2019t need to worry about conjugating the verbs. This makes things much easier! We just need to remember the following structure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Spanish Future: Verbo Ir (to go) + a + verb (infinitive)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yo \u2013 Voy \u2013 a &#8211; infinitive<br \/>\nT\u00fa \u2013 Vas \u2013 a &#8211; infinitive<br \/>\n\u00c9l\/Ella \u2013 Va &#8211; a &#8211; infinitive<br \/>\nNosotros \u2013 Vamos \u2013 a &#8211; infinitive<br \/>\nVosotros \u2013 Vais \u2013 a &#8211; infinitive<br \/>\nEllos\/Ellas \u2013 Van \u2013 a \u2013 infinitive<\/p>\n<p>The Infinitive form of a verb is its base form before any conjugation. When we looked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/regular-spanish-verbs-in-present-tense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spanish Present Tense<\/a> earlier in the course we were faced with learning lots of different verb conjugations for each person. El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo is much simpler! You just need to work on remembering the voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van part for each person.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see some new Spanish verbs:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Future-with-El-Futuro-Proximo.jpg\" alt=\"Future with El Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Escuchar \u2013 To listen<br \/>\nJugar \u2013 To play<br \/>\nEstudiar \u2013 To study<br \/>\nTrabajar \u2013 To work<br \/>\nDormir \u2013 To sleep<br \/>\nComprar \u2013 To buy<br \/>\nVer \u2013 To watch<br \/>\nVender \u2013 To sell<br \/>\nUsar \u2013 To use<br \/>\nCenar \u2013 To dine<\/p>\n<p>Here are some example sentences discussing the <strong>Future with<\/strong> <strong>el Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Yo) Voy a \u2026&#8230;..: I am going to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Voy a dormir: I am going to sleep<\/p>\n<p>(T\u00fa) Vas a \u2026&#8230;&#8230;: You are going to\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfVas a trabajar?: Are you going to work?<\/p>\n<p>(\u00c9l\/Ella) Va a \u2026&#8230;&#8230;: He\/she is going to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pedro va a cenar: Pedro is going to have dinner<\/p>\n<p>(Nosotros\/as) Vamos a \u2026&#8230;&#8230;..: We are going to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Vamos a estudiar: We are going to study<\/p>\n<p>(Vosotros\/as) V\u00e1is a \u2026&#8230;&#8230;.: You are going to&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfV\u00e1is a escuchar?: Are you going to listen?<\/p>\n<p>(Ellos\/as) Van a \u2026&#8230;..: They are going to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Los ni\u00f1os van a jugar: The children are going to play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the forty-fifth lesson in our beginner-level Spanish course and we are going to learn how to describe events in the Future with el Futuro Pr\u00f3ximo. So far in the course, we have learned how to speak in Spanish Present Tense to describe things we usually \/ always \/ never \/ sometimes \/ often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1391,1516,1652],"class_list":["post-53304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spanish-lessons","tag-beginner-spanish-lessons","tag-learn-spanish","tag-spanish-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53313,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53304\/revisions\/53313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}