Aller, Faire & the Near Future (futur proche)
Aller, Faire और निकट भविष्य (futur proche)
aller ('to go') and faire ('to do/make') are two of the most-used verbs in French, and together they unlock a simple, extremely common way to talk about the near future — no new tense endings required.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
aller (to go) — irregular
je vais, tu vas, il/elle/on va, nous allons, vous allez, ils/elles vont
मैं जाता हूँ, तू जाता है, वह जाता है, हम जाते हैं, तुम जाते हो, वे जाते हैं
aller is completely irregular and doesn't resemble its own infinitive in most forms — je vais, not je alle. Unlike Hindi verbs, which agree with the subject's gender (जाता/जाती), French verbs conjugate only by person and number, never by gender — one less thing to track, even though the six forms themselves simply have to be memorized. aller is essential both for talking about movement and, as below, for building the near future, so it's worth memorizing solidly before moving on.
faire (to do/make) — irregular
je fais, tu fais, il/elle/on fait, nous faisons, vous faites, ils/elles font
मैं करता हूँ, तू करता है, वह करता है, हम करते हैं, तुम करते हो, वे करते हैं
faire is irregular throughout, and nous faisons has a genuinely odd pronunciation — the ai is said like a soft 'uh' (fuh-ZOHN), not like the ai in fais. faire shows up constantly in fixed expressions (faire du sport, faire la cuisine, faire attention), so its irregularity is worth the early investment.
futur proche: aller + infinitif = 'going to...'
Je vais manger. (I'm going to eat.) — Qu'est-ce que tu vas faire ? (What are you going to do?)
मैं खाने वाला हूँ। (I am going to eat.)
Conjugate aller normally, then follow it directly with a second verb left in its infinitive form, and you get the near future — used constantly in spoken French for anything from the next five minutes to the next few years. Treat aller + infinitif as its own recipe to memorize — conjugated aller plus a plain infinitive — rather than trying to map it onto any particular Hindi construction.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
| French | Pronunciation | Hindi | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| je vais | zhuh vay | मैं जाता हूँmaiñ jātā hūñ | I go / I am going |
| tu vas | tu vah | तू जाता हैtū jātā hai | you go |
| il/elle va | eel/el vah | वह जाता है / वह जाती हैvah jātā hai / vah jātī hai | he/she goes |
| nous allons | noo zah-LOHN | हम जाते हैंham jāte haiñ | we go |
| ils vont | eel vohn | वे जाते हैंve jāte haiñ | they go |
| je fais | zhuh fay | मैं करता हूँmaiñ kartā hūñ | I do / make |
| nous faisons | noo fuh-ZOHN | हम करते हैंham karte haiñ | we do / make |
| vous faites | voo fet | आप करते हैंāp karte haiñ | you (formal/pl.) do / make |
| je vais manger | zhuh vay mahn-ZHAY | मैं खाने वाला हूँmaiñ khāne vālā hūñ | I am going to eat |
| qu'est-ce que tu vas faire ? | kes-kuh tu vah fair | तुम क्या करने वाले हो?tum kyā karne vāle ho? | what are you going to do? |