Dialogue

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Do you know how to talk about future actions in Spanish?
Welcome to Three Step Spanish Practice by SpanishPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice the simple future tense.
Let's look at the main dialogue.
Two people are having a conversation.
Iré a Puerto Vallarta con unos amigos.
"I'm going to Puerto Vallarta with some friends."
¿Eh? ¿Irás a la playa? ¿No buscarás trabajo?
"Huh? Will you go to the beach? Won't you look for a job?"
Iré
Iré comes from the verb ir, meaning "to go," and it's in the simple future tense.
In Spanish, the future tense is made by adding special endings to the full infinitive form of the verb.
Iré means "I will go." We don't need to include the word yo because the verb form already shows the subject.
Let's look at how the future tense works in Spanish.
To form the regular future tense, you take the full infinitive form of the verb and add the appropriate future ending based on the subject: -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -án.
But some common verbs are irregular and don't use the full infinitive.
For example, tener becomes tendré "I will have," and hacer becomes haré "I will do/make." Even though the stem changes, the same future endings are added.
Let's practice using the future tense in some simple sentences.

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