Verbs: Future Tense — Romanian Grammar

Romanian has two everyday ways to talk about the future. Both are common; the second is more colloquial.

1. The 'voi' Future

A set of helper words before the bare infinitive (the dictionary form without the ):

(I), (you), (he/she), (we), (you pl.), (they)

voi merge
I will go
Va fi frumos mâine.
It will be nice tomorrow.
Vom pleca devreme.
We will leave early.

2. The 'o să' Future

The more conversational option: the invariable particle + + the subjunctive. Only the verb changes for the person; the stays the same for everybody:

o să merg
I'm going to go
o să mergem
we're going to go
O să plouă.
It's going to rain.

This is what you will hear most in speech. The two futures mean the same thing; and are interchangeable.

Watch the Look-Alikes

Both helpers collide with words you already know. is also the pronoun "you (plural)", and is also the article "a" and the object pronoun "her". What settles it is what comes next: a bare infinitive after , and after .

Îți voi da o aspirină.
I will give you an aspirin.

In the course

Sentences from Lingora’s Romanian course

26 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 97. A few of them, with the words “Verbs: Future Tense” is about in bold:

Vreau să cumpăr această plantă. Va arăta minunat în camera mea.
I want to buy this plant. It will look great in my room.
Lesson 384
Joi voi vizita muzeul.
I will visit the museum on Thursday.
Lesson 396
O să fac o baie înainte să mă culc.
I'll take a bath before going to bed.
Lesson 481

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