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The future tense in Spanish is most definitely one of the easier of all tenses in Spanish to learn as there are only a dozen consistantly used verbs that are irregular.

The Spanish future tense is is an uncommon tense in Spanish because it is very regular in its conjugation. There are relatively few verbs that are deemed to be irregular Spanish verbs.

What is an even bigger surprise is that those verbs that are irregular, are not that hard to learn as all of them have a distinctive formation making Spanish verb conjugation much easier…more about that later to start with however, I will initially cover the conjugation of regular verbs in the future tense.

Unlike many of the other Spanish tenses, all verbs, whether they are -ar, -er or -ir verbs, use the same endings. These endings are joined to the infinitive of each verb. For example:

Hablar - ‘to speak‘

• hablaré        I will speak
• hablarás      you will speak
• hablará        he, she or it will speak
• hablaremos we will speak
• hablaréis     you will speak (plural)
• hablarán      they will speak

This conjugation applies to all verbs in Spanish as already mentioned but there are also a few irregular verbs that are used frequently. All of these irregular verbs use the same endings as used for regular verbs and their irregularities are stem changes. Thankfully, these irregular stem changes are used throughout the conjugation, so even the irregular verbs are pretty regular!

The irregular verbs in the future tense, accompanied by the irregular stem change are:

• caber ‘to fit’ or ‘to be possible’ -              caber becomes cabr
• decir ‘to say’ -                                         decir becomes dir
• haber ‘to have’ -                                     haber becomes habr
• hacer ‘to do’ or ‘to make’ -                      hacer becomes har
• poder ‘to be able to’ or ‘can’ -                 poder becomes podre
• poner ‘to put’ -                                        poner becomes pondr
• querer ‘to want’ -                                     querer becomes querr
• saber ‘to know’ -                                     saber becomes sabr
• salir ‘to leave’ -                                       salir becomes saldr
• tener ‘to have’ -                                      tener becomes tendr
• valer ‘to cost’ -                                        valer becomes valdr
• venir ‘to come’ -                                      venir becomes vendr

Always remember that the irregular future tense verbs listed above are formed the same as for regular verbs and that the irregular stems are simply replacing the full infinitive.