Futuro simples — morarei, farei

What this is about

Portuguese has two futures. Since Lição 4 you've used the spoken one — vou viajar — and that covers about 90% of daily conversation. The futuro simples (viajarei) — a Brazilian grammar book calls it the futuro do presente — is the dressed-up future: newspapers, contracts, speeches, song lyrics, promises and solemn dreams. You need it to read Brazil and to write like an adult; you'll speak it mostly in fixed phrases such as será que…? and farei o meu melhor.

The formation — the whole infinitive + four endings

The three rebels — fazer, dizer, trazer

When to use which future

Exceptions & details

1 · The "probably" future. Brazilians use the futuro simples to guess about NOW: Serão umas três horas (it must be about three), Onde ela estará? (where can she be?).
2 · Formal service register. Será feito, senhora — "it will be done"; O senhor fará a gentileza de…? — hotel-desk politeness.
3 · Never after quando/se. "When I go" is quando eu for (future subjunctive, Lição 27) — never quando eu irei.
4 · Object pronouns in careful writing can split the verb (dir-lhe-ei) — you'll see it in old texts; nobody speaks it. Brazilians say vou dizer para ele.

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