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Point de départ
In Leçon 7, you learned to use aller + [infinitive] to express
actions in the immediate future (le futur proche). You will
now learn the future tense to say what will happen.

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Note that you form the future tense of -er and -ir verbs
by adding the future endings to the infinitive. The -e of
the infinitive is dropped before adding the endings to
-re verbs.

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Note the future tense forms of most spelling-change
-er verbs:

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For -er verbs with an é before the infinitive ending, form
the future tense as you would with regular -er verbs.
The words le futur and l’avenir (m.) both mean future.
Use the first word when referring to the grammatical
future; use the second word when referring to events
that haven’t occurred yet.

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Essayez! Remplissez les blancs avec la forme correcte
du futur des verbes.
1. je __________ (manger)
2. il __________ (prendre)
3. on __________ (boire)
4. ils __________ (acheter)
5. vous __________ (choisir)
6. tu __________ (connaître)
mangerai

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Essayez! Remplissez les blancs avec la forme correcte
du futur des verbes.
1. je __________ (manger)
2. il __________ (prendre)
3. on __________ (boire)
4. ils __________ (acheter)
5. vous __________ (choisir)
6. tu __________ (connaître)
mangerai