French Going To

In this lesson you will learn a really easy way of saying what you want to do in the near future. Unlike the future tense which requires lots of more complicated conjugations this way is much faster to learn. Basically, you’re going to learn how to say, “I am going to” then add what you’re actually going to do.

Here’s the construction for this grammar:

Je vais + reverb in the infinitive form + object.

“Je vais” is the first person of the verb, “aller”, which means to go (here you can see the rest of the conjugations for the verb aller in the present tense).

In the lesson the sentence that I’m making is, “I am going to eat cheese.” In French, the sentence reads: “Je vais manger du fromage.” Manger means eat and is written with an ER, making it the infinitive or mother form, “to eat”.

You also notice that there is the word “du” in the sentence. That means some. You could also say, “Je vais manger le fromage.” That means I am going to eat the cheese. And the lesson I also teach a few other sentences and phrases.

Vocabulary List

c’est délicieux = it’s delicious
le meilleur du monde = best in the world
fromange français = french cheese
maintenent = now
à mon avis = in my opinion
un morceau de fromage = a piece of cheese
je le mange = I eat it (the le signifies the word, “it”)
je prends = I take
comme ça = like that
c’est très bon = it’s very good

More French Lessons:

1. Manger
2. Aller
3. French Negation

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