Indicheranno

Indicheranno is the third-person plural form of the Italian verb indicare in the futuro semplice (simple future). It corresponds to “they will indicate” in English and is used to express future action performed by a subject in the third person plural.

Formation and usage: Indicare is a regular -are verb, and its future forms are built by applying the standard endings to the appropriate stem. For indicare, the stem used for the future is indicher-, and the third-person plural ending is -anno, yielding indicheranno. Other forms in the same tense include indicherò, indicherai, indicherà, indicheremo, and indicherete. The form indicheranno is appropriate when the subject is a plural group (they or a collective noun).

Grammatical notes: The futuro semplice, including indicheranno, is commonly used in written and spoken Italian to forecast actions, describe planned activities, or report what a group will do. It is distinct from the passato prossimo and other past tenses that describe completed actions, and from the conditional mood, which expresses hypothetical or polite actions.

Examples:

- I responsabili indicheranno le aree da revisionare. (The managers will indicate the areas to be revised.)

- Se l’indagine confermerà i dati, indicheranno una tendenza positiva. (If the investigation confirms the data, they will indicate a positive trend.)

Etymology and related forms: Indicare derives from Latin indicare, meaning to point out or signify. Related forms include indicare (infinitive), indicazione (indication), and other conjugated tenses such as indichiamo (we indicate) or indichi (you indicate).

See also: indicare, indicazione, indicativo, futuro semplice.