{"id":7835,"date":"2018-01-15T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2018-01-15T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:57:08","slug":"portuguese-verb-tenses-the-future-with-the-verb-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-verb-tenses-the-future-with-the-verb-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"[Portuguese verb tenses] – The future with the verb ‘ir’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boa tarde, leitores! Good afternood, readers! Como est\u00e3o? How are you?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is <\/span>janeiro<\/span><\/i> (january), which means most of us are still hopeful and excited about our <\/span>resolu\u00e7\u00f5es de ano novo<\/span><\/i> (New Year\u2019s resolution). Whether you plan it is to lose weight, work less, travel more or study more Portuguese, all of these decisions involve talking about the future. There are many ways to use the future tense in Portuguese, but today we are going to cover a very common structure that we Brazilians like to employ: the <\/span>future with the verb <\/b>ir<\/i><\/b> (go). It works much like the future using \u2018going to\u2019 in English in that it indicates future actions, events, plans and intentions. Take a look at how it is formed:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I am going to stay here”<\/p><\/div>\n

Therefore, we have the verb \u2018ir\u2019 in the present as an auxiliary before the main verb in the infinitive. This construction is similar to the <\/span>future simple<\/b> in Portuguese, which doesn\u2019t require any auxiliary verb. Look:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I am going to stay here”
Future with the verb ‘ir’\/ Simple future<\/p><\/div>\n

Both sentences mean <\/span>I am going to stay here<\/span><\/i>, so you can say it both ways. But the difference is that the <\/span>future with the verb ir <\/b>is more colloquial and used more frequently in our daily speech. So if you form a sentence with <\/span>ficarei<\/span><\/i> instead of <\/span>vou passar<\/span><\/i>, you will sound a lot more formal. So before we check out some examples, let\u2019s see the verb conjugation of the verb \u2018ir\u2019 in the present:<\/span><\/p>\n

VERBO IR<\/span><\/h2>\n

eu vou<\/strong> (<\/span>I go<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

voc\u00ea vai<\/strong> (<\/span>you go<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

ele\/ela vai<\/strong> (<\/span>he\/she goes<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

n\u00f3s vamos<\/strong> (<\/span>we go<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

voc\u00eas v\u00e3o<\/strong> (<\/span>you go<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

eles\/elas v\u00e3o<\/strong> (<\/span>they go<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/h2>\n