LVC: Le futur proche
Le futur proche
You now know how to conjugate -er verbs, -re verbs, and -ir verbs in the present tense. You also know a few irregular verbs, like aller, faire, avoir and être.
Now you can learn how to talk about things that take place in the future—what we are going to do. Just as in English, French uses the the verb to go to express future activities.
Study the examples below of how the immediate future (futur proche) verb tense is constructed in French.
Examples - le futur proche |
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le présent |
le futur proche |
Je joue au foot.
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Je vais jouer au foot.
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Je travaille au centre commercial.
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Je vais travailler au centre commercial.
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Tu manges au restaurant.
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Tu vas manger au restaurant.
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Nous dansons.
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Nous allons danser.
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Ils font du ski en hiver.
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Ils vont faire du ski en hiver.
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As you may have noticed, le futur proche has two verbs. We call this a dual-verb construction. However, only one verb is conjugated, which is the verb aller.
Can you guess how to make a sentence in le futur proche negative? Where would you put the ne...pas? See below for the solution.