farei / direi

Irregular Futures: Farei and Direi

Level 2

Facer and dicir shorten their stem in the future: farei, farás, fará and direi, dirás, dirá. The endings are the regular ones.

How It Works

Two short stems

  • facer → far-: farei, farás, fará, faremos, faredes, farán
  • dicir → dir-: direi, dirás, dirá, diremos, diredes, dirán

The endings are the regular future endings (-ei, -ás, -á, -emos, -edes, -án); only the stem is shorter.

The conditional uses the same stems: faría, farías, faría... and diría, dirías, diría... (Eu non diría nada, I wouldn't say anything).

Verbs built on facer shorten in the same way: desfacer → desfarei, satisfacer → satisfarei.

Only these two. Spanish has several short futures (tendré, podré, saldré, sabré), but Galician keeps the full infinitive for those verbs: terei, poderei, sairei, saberei. Facer and dicir are the ones to memorize.

With a pronoun. After the diphthong -ei, the pronouns o and a become no and na: Fareino mañá (I'll do it tomorrow).

Examples (6)

  1. Farei a cea esta noite.

    I will make dinner tonight.

  2. Direi a verdade.

    I will tell the truth.

  3. Que farás este verán?

    What will you do this summer?

  4. Diremos que non podemos ir.

    We will say that we can't go.

  5. Se chove, faremos a festa dentro.

    If it rains, we will have the party inside.

  6. No teu lugar, eu non diría nada.

    In your place, I wouldn't say anything.

    The conditional diría uses the same short stem as the future.

Common Mistakes

  • Building the future of facer on the whole infinitive.

    Facerei a cea esta noite.
    Farei a cea esta noite.

    Facer is one of only two verbs that shorten in the future: farei, not facerei.

  • Building the future of dicir on the whole infinitive.

    Dicirei a verdade.
    Direi a verdade.

    Dicir shortens to dir-: direi, dirás, dirá.

  • Using the Spanish future haré.

    Harei os deberes despois.
    Farei os deberes despois.

    Galician facer keeps its f: farei, farás, fará. Harei is a Spanish-based form.

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farei / direiLevel 2Irregular Futures: Farei and Direi

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Facer and dicir shorten their stems in the future.

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