The Spanish Future Tense: Endings, Irregulars, and Examples

The Spanish future tense is the one place where the language gives you a break. You don’t drop the infinitive ending and find a stem. You keep the entire infinitive and add an ending to it. And there’s only one set of endings for all verbs.

How to form the regular future

Take the full infinitive (hablar, comer, vivir) and add these endings:

That’s the whole rule for regular verbs. Notice every form except nosotros carries a written accent, which also tells you where the stress falls.

The irregular stems

A small group of common verbs use a shortened or altered stem in the future. The good news: the endings stay exactly the same (-é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án). Only the stem changes, and once you learn the stem, every form follows.

There’s a pattern hiding here. Most of these either drop a vowel (poder to podr-) or replace it with a d (tener to tendr-). Only hacer and decir are truly odd. You can see all of these laid out by tense on each verb’s page, for example the full tener conjugation.

The other future: “ir a” + infinitive

In everyday speech, Spanish speakers often skip the simple future and use ir a plus an infinitive, the same way English uses “going to.”

• Voy a llamar a mi madre. (I’m going to call my mother.)
• Vamos a comer fuera esta noche. (We’re going to eat out tonight.)

Use this for near-future plans and intentions in conversation. Use the simple future (llamaré, comeremos) for predictions, promises, and more formal or written contexts. Both are correct; they just have different flavors.

Practice until the endings are automatic

The future is simple to understand and easy to get wrong under pressure, usually by forgetting an accent or reaching for a regular stem on an irregular verb like tener.

Conjugo drills the future alongside every other tense, and it marks the irregular stems so tendré and haré stop catching you off guard. Type the form, check it, and the endings become muscle memory.