French/Grammar/Tenses/Near future

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Futur Proche in French

[edit] Usage of Near Future

This tense is used to speak about something happening in the very near future, as an alternative to either the compound past(passé composé) or the simple past(passé simple).

[edit] Formation of the Near Future

This tense uses a combination of the verb to go (aller) in its present indicative form appropriate to the subject followed by the infinitive of the verb that will be done.

  • Je vais faire du shopping. I will go shopping, I am going shopping. (I am going to do the shopping.)
  • Nous allons jouer au foot. We will play soccer.


Tenses & Moods

Auxiliary Verb • Non-finite Forms : Present Participle • Past Participle • Gérondif • Infinitive • Past Infinitive

Indicative Mood :

Simple Tenses : Present • Imperfect • Past Historic • Future
Perfect Tenses : Present Perfect • Pluperfect • Past Anterior • Future Anterior
Other Tenses : Recent Past • Near Future
Subjunctive Mood : Present • Imperfect • Past • Pluperfect
Imperative Mood : Present • Past
Conditional Mood : Present • Past • Second Form of the Past
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