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Voy a comer — the near future
Module 3 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 6 of 30: The near future is ir + a + an infinitive: Voy a comer. On this page: 7 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 QR.
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.
La regla · The rule
The near future is ir + a + an infinitive: Voy a comer — I am going to eat. Vas a jugar. Vamos a ver una película. Va a llover — it is going to rain.
Y también · And also
You already conjugate ir (Module 2), so this tense is free: one verb moves, the other stays in its dictionary form, and the little a in between never drops out.
Ojo · Watch out
Only ir changes; the second verb stays in the infinitive, and the a is not optional: vamos a comer, never vamos comer, never vamos a comemos.
ir, presente — the table
yo voy · tú vas · él/ella/usted va · nosotros vamos · ustedes van · ellos/ellas van
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with yo voy a comer.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out ir, presente 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 Spanish 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.