Cercheranno

Cercheranno is the Italian verb cercare in the future simple, third-person plural. It denotes a search or an effort to find something that will take place in the future. As a regular -are verb, its future forms are built by adding endings to the stem cercher-.

The full set of forms is: io cercherò, tu cercherai, lui/lei cercherà, noi cercheremo, voi cercherete, loro cercheranno. The stem cercher- is used with all the future endings, and the spelling preserves the hard c before the e in cercher-.

Usage in Italian typically covers literal searches as well as figurative ones. Examples: Cercheranno una soluzione al problema. Cercheranno di capire cosa sia successo. In constructions with an infinitive, it is common to say cercheranno di + infinitive (e.g., cercheranno di trovare una risposta). The form cercheranno is thus used in declarative, interrogative, and conditional contexts when referring to a group in the future.

Etymology: cercare derives from Latin circare or circāre, related to going around or searching about. Over time, the sense shifted to mean “to search for” or “to seek.” The present-day form cercheranno reflects standard evolution of the verb in the first conjugation, with the orthographic choice of ch to maintain the hard c sound before e.

See also: cercare, future tense Italian conjugation, Italian verb conjugation patterns.