what is the best way to remember the irregular future tense?

Question

what is the best way to remember the irregular future tense? I know the "drs" "brs" &"others" (doctors brothers and others) method but it still is confusing

Answer 1

This is how I think of it.

There are three ways the irregulars change:

1. drops the vowel [ e.g. haber ]
2. drops the ec or ce [e.g. hacer]
3. replaces the vowel with a d [e.g. tener]

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Also, realize that there are no ar irregulars. What really helps you remember most of them is that a majority of the irregulars assist in the pronunciation.

For example, if querer were conjugated normally, it would end up as: yo quereré . It looks quite awkward and sounds quite awkward. Therefore, we drop that unnecessary vowel and just make it a rolled r: querré .

Another example: poneré vs pondré . (The latter is correct).

Thank you! - sora62896, Apr 13, 2011

o teneré v tendré or saliré v saldré in both cases the latter are correct rather than the former - FELIZ77, Apr 13, 2011