narrabo

Narrabo is the Latin verb form meaning “I will narrate,” and functions as the first-person singular future indicative of narro, narrare, naravi, narratum. It is formed with the stem narro plus the future suffix -bo, and thus belongs to the first conjugation.

The full active paradigm of narro in the present tense is narro, narras, narrat, narramus, narratis, narrant; in the future it is narrabo, narrabis, narrabit, narrabimus, narrabitis, narrabunt. Narrabo is commonly used to express an intention to recount events or stories in the future, and it can appear in both narrative and direct discourse.

Examples: “Narrabo fabulam post cenam.” (“I will narrate a tale after dinner.”) and “Narrare tibi subridens iterum narrabo.” (a stylistic example meaning “I will tell you again with a smile”). In Latin, narrabo may be complemented by direct objects or clauses, such as “narrabo tibi quid acciderit” (“I will tell you what happened”). It is a standard form encountered in classical and medieval Latin texts, as well as in modern Latin instruction.

See also narro and narrare for related forms and the broader verbal family of tell/tell about in Latin.