Future Tense Review All Four Conjugations Magister Henderson Latin II
About the Future Tense Like the imperfect, the future tense is built from the present stem. There are two differing methods for creating the future tense, depending on conjugation. Verbs of the first and second conjugations use the following endings:
Building the Future Tense habeō, habēre = to have amō, amāre = to love
Building the Future Tense For the third conjugation, you form the future tense by dropping the entire infinitive ending and adding the endings – am, -ēs, -et, -ēmus, -ētis, -ent. ponō, ponere = to put
Building the Future Tense The 3 rd –iō conjugation and 4 th conjugations add the letter “i” before the same endings. capiō, capere = to capture audiō, audīre = to hear
Translating the Future Tense The future is usually translated simply with the helping verb “will” or progressively with the helping verbs “will be”. It can also be translated with the verbal phrase “going to” or the adverbial phrase “about to”.