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Futur simple quiz: ten questions about your next steps

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Test French future endings, irregular stems, negative order and future time clauses in ten questions about study and work, with explanations.

Your future-tense check

The simple future combines a stem with -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont. This quiz checks the whole sentence: subject, verb, negative order and the relationship between two clauses.

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Choose one answer each time. Every form question asks for the simple future explicitly. Use the explanation after checking to see which part needs attention: the stem, the ending or the sentence pattern.

A short reminder before you start
InfinitiveFuture stemExample
parlerparler-tu parleras
finirfinir-vous finirez
attendreattendr-elle attendra
  1. Question 1No account needed
    Complete with prendre in the simple future.Demain, nous ___ une décision.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    prendrons. Remove the final e from prendre, then add -ons for nous: prendrons.

  2. Question 2No account needed
    Use être in the simple future.Vous ___ disponibles lundi.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    serez. Être uses ser-. With vous, the future ending is -ez: serez.

  3. Question 3No account needed
    Complete the age expression in the simple future.En juin, Luc ___ vingt ans.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    aura. Age uses avoir. The future form for Luc is aura, with the singular ending -a.

  4. Question 4No account needed
    Use faire in the simple future.Je ___ un stage cet été.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    ferai. The stem is fer-, and je takes -ai. Ferais is conditional.

  5. Question 5No account needed
    Use pouvoir in the simple future.Elles ___ participer à la réunion.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    pourront. Elles takes -ont. Keep both written r letters in pourr-.

  6. Question 6No account needed
    Choose the full written negative: “We will not work tomorrow.”

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Nous ne travaillerons pas demain.. Put ne before travaillerons and pas immediately after it in this neutral pattern.

  7. Question 7No account needed
    Complete the future result of this open condition.Si tu es libre demain, je t’___ pour discuter.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    appellerai. The condition uses the present es. The requested future result is j’appellerai, with -ai.

  8. Question 8No account needed
    Use the simple future of arriver in this future time clause.Quand elle ___, nous commencerons.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    arrivera. For this future event, French uses arrivera after quand. English uses “when she arrives”.

  9. Question 9No account needed
    Use venir in the simple future.Vous ___ présenter votre projet vendredi.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    viendrez. Venir has the stem viendr-. Add -ez for vous: viendrez.

  10. Question 10No account needed
    Find the subject, then use envoyer in the simple future.Nous vous ___ une réponse lundi.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    enverrons. Nous is the subject; vous is the recipient. Enverr- plus -ons gives enverrons.

What did your answer test?

Find the part to revisit
QuestionsFocusLook for
1, 2, 4, 5, 9Stem and subject endingA regular pattern or a stored irregular stem
3The French expressionAge uses avoir
6Negative orderNe + future verb + pas
7, 8Connected clausesPresent after conditional si; future after quand here
10Subject versus recipientNous controls the ending; vous receives the reply

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