Futuro semplice dei verbi regolari

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The future tense (futuro semplice) expresses an action that will take place in the future. In English the future is expressed with the helping verb ‘will’ or the phrase ‘to be going to’, whereas in Italian the future tense is marked by verb endings.

For 1st conjugation regular verbs, change the infinitive ending -are into -er- to obtain the stem for the future tense.
For 2nd and 3rd conjugation regular verbs, drop the final -e of the infinitive to obtain the stem for the future tense.
Then add the following future endings to the stem: -ò, -ai, -à, -emo, -ete, -anno.
This table sums up the conjugation of regular verbs:

c1 c2
arrivare prendere dormire
io arriverò prenderò dormirò
tu arriverai prenderai dormirai
lui/lei arriverà prenderà dormirà
noi arriveremo prenderemo dormiremo
voi arriverete prenderete dormirete
loro arriveranno prenderanno dormiranno

Verbs with infinitives ending in -ciare and -giare drop the i before adding the future endings to the root: tu comincerai, noi viaggeremo. Verbs with infinitives ending in -care and -gare add an h to the future stem to preserve the hard sound of the c or g of the infinitive: io cercherò, loro pagheranno.