I need help with future tense in Spanish! Please help!

Question

Is this the correct way to use future tense in Spanish? I'm trying to say "Tomorrow morning, I will wake up at eight."

"mañana de la mañana, yo va a despierta a las ocho."

Answer 1

"Mañana, me voy a despertar a las ocho [por la mañana].

Let's break that down.

So we have [me] [voy] a [despertar]

1.) We use "me" here because the verb "despertarse" is reflexive, therefore requiring the reflexive pronoun. This can also be atttached to the end of the infinitive (despertar) to become "voy a despertarme." As I'm not fully sure of how far you've gotten in your learning, I don;t know if you've learned this yet. So don;t get confused.

2.) You got the construction partially right. [Ir+a+infinitivo]. First, we need to conjugate "ir" to the subject, which in this case is "yo" The conjugation of "yo" in the indicative present is "voy".

3.) There's no need to conjugate 'despertar' because accordign to our construction (ir+a+infinitive,) whatever follows "a" stays in it's infinitive form.

Example:

[Yo] voy a comer. Voy is conjugated, comer is not.

[Nosotros] vamos a cenar. Vamos is conjugated. Cenar is not.

Espero que te sirva mi respuesta.