THE simple future tense imperfect — simple future callsign— is used to make predictions or assumptions about the future; give orders; postpone and anticipate objections regarding the interlocutor; and has concessional value with the conjunction adversative but. It is also used to express the speaker's assumptions about the present, the so-called probability future. Morphologically, it has regular and irregular shapes.
This tense is called simple because it has only one verb form, as opposed to the composite, and it's called imperfect because its functions refer to unfinished actions and related to a temporal space whose completion is uncertain. When you want to express future actions that are imminent and closer to the present, the periphrasis verbalgo + to + infinitive.
Read too:callsign present — used to express current or current actions, among other uses
Summary about future call imperfect
THE imperfect future is used to make predictions or assumptions about the future; giving orders, delaying and anticipating objections in relation to the interlocutor; and expressing concession with the adversative conjunction
but.THE probability future expresses the speaker's assumptions about the present tense.
THE imperfect future presents regular and irregular shapes;
To talk about future actions of near realization, the verbal periphrase is also used go + to + infinitive.
Uses of imperfect future
Below, check out the uses of future call imperfect:
Make predictions or assumptions about the future: some time markers related to the future are: mañana, past mañana, después, within... days/months/years.
The fiesta de cumpleaños de Jesus will be passed mañana.
(Jesús' birthday party will be the day after tomorrow.)
If you finish las papas, we will lower al super to buy more.
(If the potatoes run out, we'll go down to the supermarket to buy more.)
In three months we will go to Egypt.
(In three months we will go to Egypt.)
Give orders: it is in common use, especially with the second person singular.
In the robaras.
(Thou shalt not steal.)
We wont say anything until you find out.
(We won't tell you anything until it arrives.)
Postpone:
— We have to do the work of biology.
— Ya lo haremos, tranquilízate.
(—We have to do the biology work.
— We'll do it now/let's do it, don't worry.)
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
Anticipate objections to the interlocutor:
Mira, don't tell Marcelo what's in store for you, eh?
(Look, you won't tell Marcelo what I told you, will you?)
Express concession with the adversative conjunction but:
It will be very rich in fish, but I don't like it.
(The fish must taste really good, but I don't like it.)
probability future: used when we want to make assumptions about the present or when we ask what others assume.
— Where are you sister?
— She is still in the llegó, she will be with her friends.
(- Where is your sister?
— She hasn't arrived yet, she must be at her friends' house.)
Will the supermarket be open at all?
(Is the supermarket still open?)
regular verbs in imperfect future
The endings of regular verbs are the same for all conjugations. Note the following examples:
Pronoun |
finish |
Eat |
Leave |
|
Singular |
yo |
finishé |
eaté |
leaveé |
you / you |
finishat |
eatat |
leaveat |
|
he/she/usted |
finishá |
eatá |
leaveá |
|
Plural |
nosotros |
finishemos |
eatemos |
leaveemos |
you (as) |
finishyou are |
eatyou are |
leaveyou are |
|
they/they/ustedes |
finishno |
eatno |
leaveno |
Read too:Infinitive, gerund and participle in Spanish
Irregular verbs in imperfect future
Irregularities affect only the roots of the verbs, and the endings remain the same. The most common irregular roots are:
decir = dir- |
fit = goat- |
hace = har- |
tener = tendr- |
want = want- |
poner = weight- |
haber = habr- |
come = sell- |
power = rot- |
leave = saldr- |
know = sabr- |
vale = valdr- |
Pronoun |
decide |
To want |
To know |
|
Singular |
yo |
dire |
wantre |
saber |
you / you |
you will say |
will you want |
sabres |
|
he/she/usted |
will say |
will want |
sabra |
|
Plural |
nosotros |
we will say |
we want |
we will know |
you (as) |
direis |
kerels |
sabreels |
|
they/they/ustedes |
dirán |
want |
sabran |
Resolved exercises on future callsign imperfect
Question 01
Convert the following statements in predictions or assumptions with the corresponding form of the imperfect future.
example: If you don't study, don't llegas no one leaves. > If you don't study, don't you will no one leaves.
a) Elena return to las five.
b) Ella never exchangedThe of opinion.
c) Yes, we ate inside.
d) Don't walk away duel the rodilla.
e) Me invites a pizza?
f) If no hablas tu, hablo yo.
g)are you at home this night?
h) The exam are you morning, I have to study bad.
i)Viennese to visit us?
j) The metro sale a las diez.
Solution
a) Elena will return to las five.
b) Ella never exchangedara of opinion.
c) Yes, eatsremos inside.
d) Don't walk away dwill read the rodilla.
e) Me invitefrogs a pizza?
f) If no hablas tu, hablare yo.
g)estareres at home this night?
h) The exam it will be morning, tendre to study bad.
i)vendras to visit us?
j) The metro saldra a las diez.
Question 02 (UniEvangélica 2016/1 - Medicine)
Review the following cartoon:
La viñeta is a humorous resource that can be used to address everyday issues. In this case, the figure shows a difficulty that many people present at the beginning of a new year. The problem that the person faces is due to
a) the individual's inability to learn their own language.
b) the conviction that he will not be able to learn a new instrument.
c) changing the exercises that must be performed.
d) the proposition of goals that are not feasible for him to reach.
Solution
Letter D. The imperfect future is related to actions of uncertain realization, being understandable, therefore, its use in the cartoon. Thus, and observing the change in goals throughout the cartoon, it is understood that the character will reduce expectations about the goals he proposes to himself.
By Renata Martins Gornattes
Spanish teacher
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
GORNATTES, Renata Martins. "Future simple or indicative imperfect"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/espanhol/futuro-simple-o-imperfecto-de-indicativo.htm. Accessed on December 16, 2021.
