Future
& Conditional Tenses
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uses of these tenses. (speculation and indirect speech)
This is a word document.
Both the future
(will) and conditional (would) tenses are formed by adding ONE
set of endings to ALL infinitive verbs. No other verb tense
is like this.
The verb endings
for both are based on the verb haber, and have their origin
in a Medieval Spanish structure called by linguists the "split
future."
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I
will eat it = Comer lo he (to eat it I have [in mind]) |
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I
would eat it = Comer lo había (to eat it I had [in mind]) |
Eventually, object
pronouns were placed in front of conjugated verbs, and the haber
became contracted into the infinitive. Hence, he --> é, has
-->ás and había --> -ía etc.
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Lo
comeré. and Lo comería |
So, to help learn the endings for the future and conditional,
it helps to learn these forms of the verb haber:
| Haber in the Present (for future) & Imperfect (for conditional) |
| he
-- había |
has
-- habías |
ha
-- había |
| hemos
-- habíamos |
habéis
-- habíais |
han
-- habían |
Future and
Conditional tenses of ALL verbs |
comeré
comería |
comerás
comerías |
comerá
comería |
| comeremos
comeríamos |
comeréis
comeríais |
comerán
comerían |
There are a number of irregulars, which
occur due to phonetic properties and frequent usage. (In other
words, because it's easier to say that way and because they
are very common verbs)
They can be classed into three categories:
| "D"
group |
disappearing
"E" group |
"odd"
group |
tener
- tendr_
venir - vendr_
salir - saldr_
poner - pondr_
valer - valdr_
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querer
- querr_
poder - podr_
saber - sabr_
caber - cabr_
haber - habr_ |
hacer
- har_
decir - dir_ |
Obviously, all compounds containing these
verbs will also be irregular: mantener, imponer, etc.
Mantener, sostener, imponer, suponer, deshacer, maldecir
SER, IR & ESTAR are completely REGULAR.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
Note of warning: these two tenses are by
far the most difficult to pronounce for English speakers.
You'll need to spend more oral time than anything on this easy
to conjugate tense. Some verbs are harder than others
to say.
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