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There are many ways you can talk about the future in Spanish. The easiest is to use an adverbial phrase indicating a future time (such as mañana, más tarde,luego, a la(s) + time, and so on) with the present tense of the verb: mañana voy al aeropuerto (‘tomorrow I’m going to the airport’); luego hablamos por teléfono (‘we’ll talk on the telephone later’); a las cinco nos encontramos en la oficina de correos (‘at five o’clock we’ll meet at the post office’).

Another way to talk about the future is with the future tense. The future tense in Spanish is formed by adding the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án to the entire infinitive. Study these examples.
 

HABLAR
hablaré
hablarás
hablará
hablaremos
hablaréis
hablarán
COMER
comeré
comerás
comerá
comeremos
comeréis
comerán
VIVIR
viviré
vivirás
vivirá
viviremos
viviréis
vivirán

Some verbs are irregular in the future tense. Click here to see these verbs.

Another very common way to talk about the future is using the verb ir in a conjugated form in the present tense, followed by the preposition a and an infinitive: voy a comer (‘I am going to eat’; ‘I will eat’); vas a comer, va a comer, vamos a comer, vais a comer, van a comer, etc. This structure is especially common in spoken Spanish.



Examples of Future

  • Trataré de estar aquí de vuelta antes de las cuatro.
  • No se preocupe si llega un poco más tarde. Voy a estar en mi oficina hasta las seis.