Portuguese Verb Conjugation: Future Tense

Portuguese Verb Conjugation: Future Tense Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 9, 2008 in Learning

Today we’re going to look at how to conjugate regular verbs in the future tense, which is the same for ar, er, and ir verbs. In this case, we add the conjugation to the infinitive, instead of cutting off part of the infinitive like in other verb tenses.

This verb tense is used in the same way that we use “will” in English (i.e. I will go, she will cook, etc).

Let’s use the verb “ter” (to have) as an example.

Eu: terei [ee-ew teh-ray]

Você/Ela/Ele: terá [voh-say/eh-lah/eh-lee teh-rah]

Nós: teremos [nois teh-reh-moose]

Vocês/Eles/Elas: terão [voh-say-s/eh-leez/eh-lahs teh-reh-ow]

Let’s see how to apply this tense:

Teremos que ir no hospital. We will have to go to the hospital.

Ele jogará no próximo jogo. He will play in the next game.

Irei fazer o dever de casa. I will do my homework.

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Comments:

hi:

Did you mean irregular verbs? I’m not sure that ter and ir are classic regular verbs…
Nelson:

É muito legal,ver que vocês gostam da nossa língua e da nossa cultura.Eu vou começar a estudy inglish,alguem poderia me ajudar,posso ajudar com a língua Portuguesa.
jeanne:

Muitas pessoas (brasileiros)confundem o presente com o passado na hora de escrever, por exemplo:

eles comerão – futuro
eles comeram – passado

Mas na hora de escrever o futuro usam “comeram” instead of “comerão.
Ana:

yes, the first person is right, “ter” and “ir” are irregular verbs, they can sound regular if you look to this in the future, but actually they are IRREGULAR.
I m brazilian and i use the urbandictionary to improve my english, i laughed a lot when i saw these new topics about the Brazil, principally the thing about Minas Gerais, because its the state where i live in. But i don t speak this way, i don t liked to think that the american think the “mineiros” is all this way ^~
Felipe Mobus:

The mentioned verbs are irregular. Better examples would be regular ones, such as the always-used-in-conjugation-tables “cantar”, “beber”, “partir”.

eu cantarei, beberei, partirei
você/ele cantará, beberá, partirá
nós cantaremos, beberemos, partiremos
vocês/eles cantarão, beberão, partirão.

Quick etymology lesson: this synthetic conjugation form actually comes from a older, still valid, analytic one, where you had infinitive verb + future of “haver”. In other words, “cantar hei, beber hei, partir hei” (or “hei de cantar, hei de beber, hei partir”. Eventually, this got contracted to “cantarei, beberei, partirei”. If you wanna sound really formal, the abovementioned analytic conjugation will impress your peers 😛

Funny thing is, in current spoken portuguese, this synthetic form has alread fallen out favor to another analytic form, where you say future of “ir” + infitive verb, e.g. “vou cantar, vou beber, vou partir”. In some places, notably in Rio Grande do Sul, this is applied even for when “ir” is the main verb! “Vou ir ao cinema”, “vou ir embora” are commonly heard in that state.
paige:

Ter and Ir are not irregular verbs when in the future.

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