Future Tense – Irregular verbs

In this lesson we learn the future tense of irregular French verbs.

What are the irregular verbs in the future tense?

A handful of verbs have irregular stems for the future tense.

For example, the future tense endings for avoir are added to the stem aur-. For être the stem to use is ser-.

The same endings are added as per the regular verbs, it’s just the stem that needs to be noted.

Therefore, avoir is formed as follows:

FrenchEnglish
j’auraiI will have
tu aurasyou will have
il aurahe will have
elle aurashe will have
nous auronswe will have
vous aurezyou will have
ils aurontthey will have
elles aurontthey will have

Être, meanwhile, looks like this:

FrenchEnglish
je seraiI will be
tu serasyou will be
il serahe will be
elle serashe will be
nous seronswe will be
vous serezyou will be
ils serontthey will be
elles serontthey will be

What are the irregular future tense stems in French?

The main irregular stems to note are:

French VerbFuture StemEnglish
acquériracquerr-to acquire
allerir-to go
avoiraur-to have
courircourr-to run
devoirdevr-to have to
envoyerenverr-to send
êtreser-to be
fairefer-to do
falloirfaudr-to need to
pleuvoirpleuvr-to rain
pouvoirpourr-to be able to
savoirsaur-to know
tenirtiendr-to hold
valoirvaudr-to be worth
venirviendr-to come
voirverr-to see
vouloirvoudr-to want
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