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Questions & Answers about Aquesta tarda agafaré el metro perquè la meva tieta prepara una sorpresa per al meu oncle.
Why does aquesta tarda mean this afternoon, and why is there no preposition?
In Catalan, aquesta tarda works like an adverbial time expression, just like this afternoon in English. You do not need a preposition.
- aquesta tarda = this afternoon
- a la tarda = in the afternoon
- cada tarda = every afternoon
So Aquesta tarda agafaré el metro is perfectly natural.
How is agafaré formed?
Agafaré is the future tense of agafar.
It is formed by taking the infinitive agafar and adding the future ending -é:
- agafar
- é → agafaré
This means I will take.
Some other future forms are:
- agafaràs = you will take
- agafarà = he/she/it will take
- agafarem = we will take
- agafareu = you all will take
- agafaran = they will take
Where is the word for I in agafaré?