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Tu fonderas une grande entreprise et tu inventeras de nouvelles choses.

Tu fonderas une grande entreprise et tu inventeras de nouvelles choses.
You will found a large company and you will invent new things.
From Lesson 135:The future tense for regular verbs (-rai, -ras)·French

Questions & Answers about Tu fonderas une grande entreprise et tu inventeras de nouvelles choses.

How are fonderas and inventeras formed in this sentence?
They are in the futur simple tense. For regular -er verbs like fonder (to found) and inventer (to invent), you take the full infinitive and add the future ending. For tu, the ending is -as, giving us fonderas and inventeras.
Wait, doesn't fonder mean to melt?
You might be thinking of fondre, which means to melt. fonder is a regular -er verb meaning to found or to create (like founding a company). Since it is a regular -er verb, its future stem is the whole word fonder.
Why is it de nouvelles choses and not des nouvelles choses?
Normally, the plural word for some is des (like des choses). But there is a special French rule: when an adjective comes right before a plural noun, des changes to de. Since the adjective nouvelles comes before choses, we must use de.
Why do grande and nouvelles come before their nouns? I thought French adjectives usually go after.
Most French adjectives do go after the noun, but short, common ones describing Beauty, Age, Goodness, or Size (often remembered by the acronym BAGS) go before. grande describes size and nouvelles describes age or newness, so they step in front of entreprise and choses.

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