In French, it is possible to use the Present Tense with an expression that clearly place the action somtime in the future :

  • Demain, je commence à étudier la grammaire française ! → Tomorrow, I'll start studying the French grammar!

It is also possible to express the future with the Futur Proche, a tense that is normally used for actions or events that will happen for sure at a given (known) time. This tense is however used very commonly in the spoken language, even when another form of future would be considered grammatically correct.

  • Demain, je vais faire 10 km de jogging ! → Tomorrow, I'll run 10 km.


The Futur Proche is conjugated this way:

ALLER (présent) + infinitif


Exemple : travailler


Je vais travailler

Tu vas travailler

Il / Elle va travailler

Nous allons travailler

Vous allez travailler

Ils / Elles vont travailler

Last modified: Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 3:39 PM