Here’s a handful of some of the most useful regular -RE verbs with their future-tense stems: Unlike -ER and -IR verbs, you’ll need to make a small change to the infinitive before you can use it as the future verb stem: Simply drop the -e from the end of the base form of the verb, then add the usual endings. Now, we come to the third type of regular French verbs: -RE verbs. For those, we drop the “av-” from av ons (we have) and av ez (you have) to get the endings -ons (for nous ) and -ez (for vous ). In fact, the endings are exactly the same as the present tense of avoir for everything but the nous and vous forms. You’ll find that the future verb endings look suspiciously like the present tense of the French verb avoir (to have) for the corresponding person. Luckily, both regular and irregular verbs use the same endings for the future tense - so you’ll only need to remember one set of future verb endings: (We’ll see some of these close up when we look at the future-tense conjugations for ten of the most common irregular verbs.) On the other hand, ir regular verbs tend to have irregular future stems.

The future verb stems for regular -ER, -IR, and -RE verbs follow a simple pattern. The formula for French future-tense conjugation involves two elements: Verb stem + verb ending.