Grammar Guide - Future Tense

 I was trying to read an article online and there was a question: “¿Donde estará mi hermano ahorita?”

Could you help me to understand this question? “estará-Future” and “ahorita-now” doesn't make sense to me!)

Thank you.

Marspanish

In Spanish the future tense could be used to express probably.  For instance, if you arrive at my house around dinner time, I might say “tendrás hambre”  - “you must be hunger”.

You can also use the future tense in a questioning format for conjecture.  So “¿Donde estará mi hermano ahorita?” means “Where do you think my son is right now?”.

See the link

Is it more literally "Where will my son be right now?"?

Yes, literally:  Where will my brother be right now?

(hermano: brother       hijo: son)

I would translate it to "Where could my brother be right now?"  if you're asking yourself, or if you're asking someone else "Where do you think my brother could be?"

I am confused with this sit up. When I press for future, past or present tense I don't see them. I just get an explanation in english saying what they are but not how to do it in spanish example

hablo hablas habla hablamos hablais hablan (and then there meanings in english).

Can somebody help me out or point me to the place to ask these questions as I am confused in here.

curls8

Hi im pretty sure spanishpod doesnt have conjugation tables anymore. i vaguely recall that you used to be able to access them through your vocabulary lists

if i need to look up a particular conjugation ill use

wordreference or verbix

sorry, i dont know of a free conjugator that gives correct english equivalents as well

If they don't have the tables then where do you learn about conjugating verbs? Like the Present, Past, Future, ect...

I am just not understanding this site if it doesn't help with grammer, what do I do here?

I just heard this was the best site to learn spanish so I did the free trial and I am getting confused about what the site is really for.

If all you want is a table to memorise verbs from,  then try wordreference I think it is the best dictionary out there. Use it, most of us do.  but...

Memorization of verb forms is not living language. It's only one small piece. 

Listen, and repeat the dialogs, lots of them, ask questions.  Like a child you must discover the rules for yourself. (go ahead, cheat! look at the rules! it doesn't matter.) Your parents told you stuff, but until you fell flat and were able to relate your experience to the rule they told you, until then it meant nothing.  You need to work on experience and discovery. Listen, repeat, internalize this stuff, when you wake up dreaming about it, you are getting close. If you can  make that effort, you should be fluent.

This is the best site.
Este es el mejor sitio para aprender español.

curls8

check out these lessons in particular this one  as we're in the future tense section. for a guide to verb conjugations and if you have any questions just ask.

Thanks I will check it out. I like to combine knowing the conjugations of words along with the listening, the repeating part and living the language. There was I time when I dreamt in spanish but that was 10 years ago when I was learning spanish in Puerto Rico but I am so far remove from that so I am basically starting over and hoping to reach that point again.

Thanks again

Thanks I looked at the videos that is what I wanted, just to know how to form ending of the future tense.

Thanks again