dirá

Dirá is a conjugated form of the Spanish verb decir, used as the third-person singular in the future indicative. It corresponds to “he will say,” “she will say,” or the polite “you (usted) will say.” The future tense of decir is irregular in its stem, using dir- rather than the infinitive dic-: diré, dirás, dirá, diremos, diréis, dirán.

Pronunciation is typically di-RÁ, with the stress on the last syllable and a tapped or rolled r. In IPA, it is commonly transcribed as diˈɾa.

Usage notes: Dirá is employed to describe something that a third-person subject will say in the future. It appears in narratives, reported speech, and conditional statements involving future action by another person. The form requires a subject understood from context or explicitly stated, such as él, ella, or usted.

Examples:

- Mañana dirá la verdad. (Tomorrow he/she/you will say the truth.)

- El portavoz dirá si hay nuevos cambios. (The spokesperson will say whether there are new changes.)

- Si le preguntas, dirá que sí. (If you ask him, he will say yes.)

Etymology: Dirá derives from the Spanish verb decir, reflecting the historical irregularity of its future tense. The stem dir- is used across all future forms (diré, dirás, dirá, diremos, diréis, dirán), a pattern inherited from the verb’s phonological evolution from Latin dicere.

See also: decir, futuro simple, verb conjugation.