📖LearnModule 3 · Lesson 6 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 2 · Le futur proche, and new verb families
Je vais manger — the futur proche
Module 3 of the free French course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 6 of 30: The near future is aller + an infinitive: Je vais manger. On this page: 6 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 6.
The words
French
English
Say it
je vais manger
I am going to eat
zhuh veh mah(n)-ZHAY
tu vas jouer
you are going to play
tew vah zhoo-AY
il va pleuvoir
it is going to rain
eel vah pluh-VWAHR
nous allons regarder un film
we are going to watch a movie
noo zah-loh(n) ruh-gahr-day uh(n) FEELM
le film
the movie
luh FEELM
l'infinitifmasculine — the article elides to l'
the infinitive
la(n)-fee-nee-TEEF
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
The near future is aller + an infinitive: Je vais manger — I am going to eat. Tu vas jouer. Nous allons regarder un film.
Et aussi · And also
You already conjugate aller (Module 2), so this tense is free: one verb moves, the other stays in its dictionary form.
Attention · Watch out
In the futur proche only aller changes; the second verb stays in the infinitive: nous allons regarder, never nous allons regardons.
aller — the table
je vais · tu vas · il/elle va · nous allons · vous allez · ils/elles vont
Do it now — on paper
Say all 6 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with je vais manger.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out aller in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.