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L'astronaute voudra faire cette mission dangereuse.

L'astronaute voudra faire cette mission dangereuse.
The astronaut will want to do this dangerous mission.
From Lesson 137:Irregular future stems (ser-, aur-, ir-...)·French

Questions & Answers about L'astronaute voudra faire cette mission dangereuse.

Where does voudra come from?
It is the future tense of vouloir (to want). Usually, you form the future tense by adding endings to the infinitive of a verb, but vouloir uses the irregular stem voudr-. Because l'astronaute matches the he/she (il/elle) form, we add the ending -a to make voudra.
Why is faire not conjugated here?
When two verbs are paired together in French, the second verb stays in its infinitive (dictionary) form. Since voudra is already conjugated, faire (to do) stays exactly as it is.
How do we know to use cette instead of ce for "this"?
The word mission is feminine. A good trick to remember is that almost all French nouns ending in -tion or -sion are feminine. Because it is feminine, we must use the feminine word for "this", which is cette.
Why is it dangereuse and not dangereux?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Since cette mission is feminine, the adjective changes from its masculine form dangereux to its feminine form dangereuse. Notice that it also goes after the noun, which is the standard position for most French adjectives!

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