Future

The future is a simple tense of the Conjugaison of the French verbs. It belongs to the indicative mode and gets busy to express an action to come in an unquestionable way.

One can also employ it for an assumption, the assumption having then a stronger probability than when one employs the Conditionnel. It is coupled with the present like the conditional one is coupled with the imperfect one.

  1. “If I gain with the lottery, I will buy a large house in the countryside. ” (present + future)

  2. “If I gained with the lottery, I would buy a large house in the countryside. ” (imperfect + conditional present)

(the first sentence gets busy when one has just bought the ticket, the second can be employed whereas one does not even play)

One speaks then about “future with modal value of conditional”, criticized expression because caused makes some by the statute of mode given to the conditional one.

Conjugation

The future is formed starting from the infinitive of the verbs to which one adds the terminations - have, - ace, - has, - ons, - ez, - has

Examples:

  • to eat/I will eat
  • to finish/I will finish
  • writing/I will write

- The verbs in - er which change radical at the present indicative also change radical with the future

to call present: I call future: I will call, you will call…

to buy present: I buy future: I will buy, you will buy…

to address as tu present: I address as tu future: I will address as tu, you will address as tu…

Verbs of the first group

I chanter' ai'
tu chanter' as'
il, it, one chanter' a'
nous chanter' ons'
vous chanter' ez'
ils chanter' ont'

Verbs of the second group

I finir' ai'
tu finir' as'
il, it, one finir' a'
nous finir' ons'
vous finir' ez'
ils finir' ont'

Verbs of the third group

I dormir' ai'
tu dormir' as'
il, it, one dormir' a'
nous dormir' ons'
vous dormir' ez'
ils dormir' ont'

To have

I aur' ai'
tu aur' as'
il, it, one aur' a'
nous aur' ons'
vous aur' ez'
ils aur' ont'

To be

I ser' ai'
tu ser' as'
il, it, one ser' a'
nous ser' ons'
vous ser' ez'
ils ser' ont'

Formation of the French future

It is not by chance that the terminations agree with the form of the present of verb to have . The future Latin was given up by the Romans in their familiar language at the time imperial and it was replaced by a combination of the Infinitif and present of the verb habere , for example in the sentence of Augustinus: Petant aut not petant venire habet. (Requesting or not requesting, it will come.)

Indeed, the future French is resulting from the periphrastic Futur Latin ( habeo cantare , reversed in cantare habeo , gave cantare have , then by fusion will sing ), this for all the people except the first and second people of the plural, which received a different treatment.

For these people, the future would be chantereins and chantereiz if they had undergone the same transformations. Actually, the contemporary form of the future comes from an analogy of the flexional Morphème S with those of the present of the code chant' ons' , chant' ez .

External bond

  • the origin of the future and conditional the

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