Futuro Do Presente

Futuro do presente

This is the correspondent to Future Will in English. Again, in Portuguese, there is no need to use any auxiliary whatsoever. Therefore, the ending of the conjugated verb defines the verb tense, just as with the verb tenses we’ve studied before.

In Portuguese, it is also possible to say that you are going to do something, by using the verb IR + another verb. However, this lesson focuses only on the WILL future.

WATCH OUT: Although we have two similar ways of expressing the future in indicative tenses, Portuguese holds no differences in meaning as it does in English. The future with the verb IR is more informal and a lot used in spoken language.

	SER be	ESTAR Be	TER To have
Eu	SEREI	ESTAREI	TEREI
Você	SERÁ	ESTARÁ	TERÁ
Ele	SERÁ	ESTARÁ	TERÁ
Ela	SERÁ	ESTARÁ	TERÁ
A gente	SERÁ	ESTARÁ	TERÁ
Nós	SEREMOS	ESTAREMOS	TEREMOS
Vocês	SERÃO	ESTARÃO	TERÃO
Eles	SERÃO	ESTARÃO	TERÃO
Elas	SERÃO	ESTARÃO	TERÃO

Remember that SER and ESTAR are main verbs, just like in English, and they are also irregular verbs. Check the spelling of these verbs and you will see they differ from that of their infinitive forms, their roots. Same thing happens with the verb TER.