J'espère que l'année prochaine sera belle.

I hope that next year will be beautiful.

Breakdown of J'espère que l'année prochaine sera belle.

• je: I
• être: to be
• beau: beautiful
• que: that
• l'année: the year
• prochain: next
• espérer: to hope

Questions & Answers about J'espère que l'année prochaine sera belle.

Why is sera used here instead of something like va être?

In French, the simple future tense (sera) is often used to express a more formal or certain future, while the near future (va être) suggests something more immediate or less formal. Both are correct in many contexts, but sera can sound a bit more definite and is frequently used in writing or when making predictions about the future.

What does belle mean in this context?

Here, belle means the upcoming year will be wonderful, beautiful, or pleasant. It’s an adjective describing the year in a positive sense. In English, we might say something like “I hope next year will be great.”

Why do we use J’espère que before the future tense?

J’espère que (I hope that) commonly appears before a simple future tense in French to express hope or expectation about a future event. It’s just the standard way of combining “hope” with a future tense in French. You can think of it as “I hope that next year will be...” in English.

Why do we include que after J’espère?

The word que is a conjunction that introduces the clause giving more detail about what is being hoped for. In French, certain verbs like espérer, penser, or savoir typically take que before the dependent clause they introduce.