Pourrons

Pourrons is the first-person plural form of the French verb pouvoir in the future simple tense. It expresses that the subject will be able to do something. As a finite verb form, it appears only with the subject nous and is not used as a noun or standalone word outside a sentence.

Etymology and morphology: pouvoir, the auxiliary/modal verb meaning “to be able to,” derives from Latin posse. In modern French, the future simple uses the stem pourr- combined with standard future endings. The form pourrons thus consists of the pourr- stem plus the ending -ons. The same pourr- stem is used across all persons in the future simple (je pourrai, tu pourras, il pourra, nous pourrons, vous pourrez, ils pourront).

Conjugation: In full, the future simple of pouvoir is: je pourrai, tu pourras, il pourra, nous pourrons, vous pourrez, ils pourront. The verb is irregular in its stem, shifting to pourr- rather than following a regular -er/-ir/-re pattern. Unlike its present tense form, pourrons does not alter the stem in the other tenses for regular agreement.

Usage: Pourrons is used to express future capability or possibility. It often appears with time expressions like demain, bientôt, or lorsque followed by a clause. It can be negated as “nous ne pourrons pas,” and it may appear in subordinate clauses after conjunctions indicating future events. In compound tenses, pouvoir commonly appears with infinitives (e.g., Nous pourrons commencer après vous être réunis), and its meaning can overlap with probabilistic or conditional senses in context.

Examples: Nous pourrons visiter la cité demain. Nous pourrons terminer le projet si tout se passe bien. Nous ne pourrons pas venir ce soir sans votre aide.

See also: pouvoir; conjugation of pouvoir; French future tense.