querrán

Querrán is the third-person plural form of the Spanish verb querer in the futuro simple (simple future). In this tense it means “they will want” and can express both desire and intention, depending on the object of querer (for example, wanting something or wanting to do something). The form is also used in questions and in subordinate clauses where the subject is “they.”

Conjugation and irregularity: In the futuro simple, querer is irregular because the stem changes to querr- in all for-min forms. The full paradigm is: yo querré, tú querrás, él/ella/usted querrá, nosotros querremos, vosotros querréis, ellos/ellas/ustedes querrán. The accent marks appear on the final syllable in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd singular forms (querré, querrás, querrá) and on the second-person plural (querréis) and on the third-person plural (querrán).

Usage notes: Querrán is commonly used to talk about future desires or intentions by a group or multiple people. It can appear with a direct object (querrán algo) or with an infinitive verb (querrán ir, querrán estudiar). A related, more polite or tentative form is querría or quisiera, which expresses “I would like” or “they would like.” Querrán should not be confused with conditional forms like querrían, which means “they would want,” or with the present subjunctive quiero/quieras/ quiera forms used in different moods.

Etymology: Querer derives from Latin quaerere, meaning to seek or desire. The futuro simple form querr- reflects a historical stem change that affects all persons in this tense.