commencerons

Commencerons is the first-person plural future simple form of the French verb commencer, meaning “we will begin.” It is used with the subject nous to indicate a planned or expected action in the future.

Morphology and usage notes

The form is built by taking the infinitive commencer and adding the standard future endings for -er verbs. Therefore, vous commencerez, ils commenceront, and nous commencerons follow the same regular pattern. In written and spoken French, commencerons specifically expresses a future action related to “we,” as in plans, intentions, or scheduled events. The spelling does not involve any diacritical marks in this form, unlike some present-tense forms of the same verb (for example, nous commençons, which uses a cedilla to preserve the s sound before a, o, or u).

Examples

- Nous commencerons le projet demain. (We will begin the project tomorrow.)

- Nous commencerons bientôt à étudier les résultats. (We will soon start studying the results.)

Editorial notes

Commencerons should be distinguished from related tenses: commencerions (conditional), commencerons (simple future), and commencerons à faire quelque chose is a common construction to indicate initiating an action in the future. The form is standard across modern French and is widely used in both formal and informal contexts.

Etymology

The verb commencer derives from Old French comencer, itself from Latin incipere (to begin), via the development in Vulgar Latin. Commencerons, as a future tense form, reflects regular conjugation patterns for -er verbs.