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Futur Simple Practice: 10 Free Questions
Ten futur simple questions, free and playable right here. You type the form, it is corrected the moment you answer, and anything you get wrong comes back before the round ends. Below the drill, the full futur simple of the same ten verbs: parler, ĂȘtre, avoir, aller, finir, prendre, faire, pouvoir, attendre and vouloir.
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parler · to speak
Accents are not marked here, so ĂȘtes and etes both count. Ten questions, futur simple only. The full drill runs six tenses over 300 verbs, offline, in one file.
When ten questions stop being enough
The same drill, with 300 verbs instead of ten and six tenses instead of one. It keeps a record of the verbs that catch you out and hands them back more often, which is what turns practice into progress.
- 300 verbs, 6 tenses, over 12,600 questions
- A timer mode, for when you need the answer to come without thinking
- One file you download and keep, opening with no connection
The futur simple of the ten verbs, in full
Every form the drill can ask you for. Read it after the round rather than before: looking up the answer you just missed is what makes it stay.
| Verb | je | tu | il | nous | vous | ils |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| parlerto speakRegular | parlerai | parleras | parlera | parlerons | parlerez | parleront |
| ĂȘtreto beIrregular | serai | seras | sera | serons | serez | seront |
| avoirto haveIrregular | aurai | auras | aura | aurons | aurez | auront |
| allerto goIrregular | irai | iras | ira | irons | irez | iront |
| finirto finishRegular | finirai | finiras | finira | finirons | finirez | finiront |
| prendreto takeIrregular | prendrai | prendras | prendra | prendrons | prendrez | prendront |
| faireto do / to makeIrregular | ferai | feras | fera | ferons | ferez | feront |
| pouvoircan / to be able toIrregular | pourrai | pourras | pourra | pourrons | pourrez | pourront |
| attendreto waitRegular | attendrai | attendras | attendra | attendrons | attendrez | attendront |
| vouloirto wantIrregular | voudrai | voudras | voudra | voudrons | voudrez | voudront |
The endings are almost a verb you already know
The futur simple takes -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont, whatever the verb. Set them beside the présent of avoir, ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont, and only nous and vous differ, by the two letters that were trimmed off.
So the endings are not the work. There are six of them, they never change, and you have been using five of them since your first week of French.
The stem is the infinitive, until it is not
For most verbs the stem is simply the infinitive: parler gives parlerai, finir gives finirai. Verbs in -re drop the final e first, which is why attendre gives attendrai and prendre gives prendrai.
Then there are the ones that rewrite themselves, and this round is full of them on purpose. Six of these ten verbs have an irregular stem: ĂȘtre becomes ser-, avoir becomes aur-, aller becomes ir-, faire becomes fer-, pouvoir becomes pourr-, vouloir becomes voudr-. They are also six of the most used verbs in the language, so there is no route around them.
Learn this stem once and you get the conditionnel free
The futur simple and the conditionnel are built on exactly the same stem. Je serai and je serais come from ser-, j'irai and j'irais from ir-. The only difference is the ending: the futur takes the ones above, the conditionnel borrows the imparfait endings, -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient.
Which means every irregular stem you drill here is doing double duty, and that the hardest part of two tenses is one piece of work rather than two.
The same ten verbs, another tense
- PrésentWhere the marks start going. Ten questions.
- PassĂ© composĂ©Avoir or ĂȘtre, then the participle. Ten questions.
- ImparfaitOne stem, one set of endings, one exception.
- Futur simpleYou are here. Endings you already know, stems you may not.
Questions
- Is this futur simple practice really free?
- Yes. The ten questions run in your browser, you type the answers and they are corrected straight away, with no account and no email address. The paid drill exists for the other 290 verbs and the other five tenses, not to unlock this page.
- How do I form the futur simple in French?
- Add -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont to the infinitive. Verbs ending in -re drop the final e first: attendre gives j'attendrai. A short list of common verbs use an irregular stem instead, among them ĂȘtre (ser-), avoir (aur-), aller (ir-), faire (fer-), pouvoir (pourr-) and vouloir (voudr-).
- What is the difference between je serai and je serais?
- One letter and one tense. Je serai is the futur simple, something you are saying will happen. Je serais is the conditionnel, something that would happen under a condition. They share the stem ser- and differ only in the ending.
- What is in the paid drill that is not here?
- 300 verbs instead of ten, six tenses instead of one, over 12,600 questions, a timer mode and a progress record that remembers which verbs keep catching you out. It is one file you download and keep, and it opens with no connection.