Tips 017: A Hack For The Future

One critical element of conversation hacking is being able to share your thoughts and ideas as quickly as possible. A common set of ideas that you may want to able express is talking about the future.

In this episode of the real fast spanish tips podcast we add a further piece of the puzzle to conversation hacking theory.

We will look at another sentence from the 13 Spanish Grammar Hacking sentences. In the previous theoretical episode we looked at one sentence that allowed you to express actions that occur in the past without having to memorise every past tense verb conjugation.

Today, in this tip we discuss a very similar idea. Using a compound expression, we will hack talking about actions in the future without having to memorise all future tense verb conjugations.

Expression for hacking the future:

Ir + a + infinitive = something is going to happen

Infinitives are verbs in their most basic form, for example in english “to speak”, “to eat”, “to want” in spanish “hablar”, “comer” and “querer”

Conjugations of the verb ‘ir’

I go – Yo voy

You go – tu vas

He goes – él va

She goes – ella va

We go – nosotros vamos

You-all go – vosotros vaís

They go – ellos van y ellas van

As a general rule of thumb, the spanish drop the pronoun:

I go – Voy

You go – Vas

We go – Vamos

You-all go – Vaís

They go – Van

Grammar hacking sentence:

I am going to know tomorrow – Voy a conocer mañana

Also the sentence could be:

I am going to get to know it tomorrow – Voy a conocerlo mañana

I am going to get to know Barcelona tomorrow – Voy a conocer Barcelona mañana

Examples from the episode:

Are you going to the market today? – ¿Vas a ir al mercado hoy?

I am going to go tomorrow – Voy a ir mañana

When are you going to be ready? – ¿Cuando vas a estar listo?

I will be ready in two minutes – Voy a estar listo en dos minutos

Voy a estar lista en dos minutos (female)

This afternoon I’m going to speak with my friends – Esta tarde voy a hablar con mis amigos

Do you want to eat now? – ¿Quieres comer ahora?

I’m going to eat later – Voy a comer despues

When are they going to leave? – Cuando van a salir?

They are going to leave next week – Van a salir la semana que viene

The week that comes (next week) – la semana que viene

This episodes quote:

“Todo va a estar bien.” – Bob Marley

In today’s episode, we talked about another sentence from the Spanish grammar hacking sentences. To see the others check out the conversation hacking guide.

How can you use today’s tip to talk about the future?

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