Mañana cocinaré bacalao con tomate, aunque mi hermana dice que prefiere la merluza.

Tomorrow I will cook cod with tomato, although my sister says she prefers hake.

Breakdown of Mañana cocinaré bacalao con tomate, aunque mi hermana dice que prefiere la merluza.

• yo: I
• cocinar: to cook
• mi: my
• con: with

Questions & Answers about Mañana cocinaré bacalao con tomate, aunque mi hermana dice que prefiere la merluza.

What tense is cocinaré, and how is it formed?

Cocinaré is the simple future of cocinar.

It is formed by taking the infinitive and adding future endings:

• cocinar + é → cocinaré
• cocinar + ás → cocinarás
• cocinar + á → cocinará
• cocinar + emos → cocinaremos
• cocinar + éis → cocinaréis
• cocinar + án → cocinarán

So cocinaré means I will cook.

The written accent on é shows the stress falls on the last syllable: co-ci-na-RÉ.

Why is there no yo before cocinaré?

Spanish often omits subject pronouns when the verb form already shows who the subject is.

Here, cocinaré clearly means I will cook, so yo is unnecessary.

You could say Yo cocinaré bacalao con tomate, but adding yo usually gives extra emphasis, for example:

• Yo cocinaré bacalao, no ella.

In a neutral sentence, leaving out yo sounds more natural.

Why does the sentence start with mañana? Does Spanish need a preposition there?