Future Tense: amabo, habebo

Level 3

Add -bi- to the stem and you get the future.

How It Works

Compare the imperfect: amabat means he was loving, and amabit means he will love. One vowel separates the past from the future.

Every verb of these two families works the same way: laudo gives laudabo, laudabis, and moneo gives monebo, monebis.

Only two forms lack the -bi-: the first person (-bo) and the third person plural (-bunt).

The future often goes with a word like cras: Cras Romam videbo.

Cras Romam videbo.
Tomorrow I will see Rome.
Videbo is the second conjugation future, first person.
Marcus cantabit.
Marcus will sing.
Cantabit is cantare plus -bi- and -t.
Pueri in horto manebunt.
The boys will stay in the garden.
Manebunt is the third person plural: -bunt.
Iulia librum habebit.
Iulia will have a book.
Habebit is the second conjugation future.
Laudabo Dominum in vita mea.
I will praise the Lord all my life.
From Psalm 145. Laudabo is the first person future, and in vita mea is in plus the ablative.

Mixing up the endings -bunt and -ent.
Pueri cantabent.
Pueri cantabunt.
The ending -ent belongs to the third and fourth conjugations. The first conjugation uses -bunt.
Using the first conjugation vowel in the second conjugation.
Marcus librum hababit.
Marcus librum habebit.
Habere keeps its e in the future: habebit.

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Future Tense: amabo, habeboLevel 3

The -bo future is easy to mix up with the imperfect, so the imperfect comes first.

-boamohabeo

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