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La Terra esisterà sempre, ma esploreremo un altro pianeta.

La Terra esisterà sempre, ma esploreremo un altro pianeta.
Earth will always exist, but we will explore another planet.
From Lesson 110:The future tense of -are and -ere verbs (-erò)·Italian

Questions & Answers about La Terra esisterà sempre, ma esploreremo un altro pianeta.

How do we form the future tense of esistere here?
Esistere is a regular -ere verb. To make it future tense, we drop the final -e from the infinitive to get the stem esister-, then add the third-person singular ending -à because the subject is La Terra (it). This gives us esisterà.
Why is the future tense of esplorare spelled esploreremo and not "esploraremo"?
For regular -are verbs in the future tense, the a in the infinitive ending changes to an e. This means the stem esplorar- changes to esplorer-. We then add the "we" ending -emo to make esploreremo.
Wait, pianeta ends in -a. Why does it use the masculine word un?
Pianeta is a common exception! Even though it ends in -a, it is actually a masculine noun. That is why it takes the masculine article un and the masculine adjective altro. In the plural, it becomes i pianeti.
Why is there no apostrophe in un altro?
Because pianeta is masculine, we use the standard masculine article un, which never takes an apostrophe. We only use an apostrophe with un' before feminine words that start with a vowel.

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