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Prenderete la prima astronave per Marte?

Prenderete la prima astronave per Marte?
Will you take the first spaceship for Mars?
From Lesson 111:The future tense of -are and -ere verbs (-erò)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Prenderete la prima astronave per Marte?

How is the future tense formed for prendere in this sentence?
To form the future tense for regular -ere verbs like prendere, you drop the final -e from the infinitive and add the future endings. For the voi (you plural) form, the ending is -ete, giving us prender- + -ete = prenderete.
The English translation just says you, but is this asking one person or multiple people?
It is asking multiple people! In Italian, the subject pronoun is usually dropped because it is built right into the verb. The ending -ete in prenderete tells us this is the voi (plural you) form. If you were asking just one person, you would use the tu form: prenderai.
The word astronave ends in -e. How do we know its gender?
Nouns ending in -e can be masculine or feminine, so they often need to be memorized. Here, we can tell astronave (spaceship) is feminine because it is paired with the feminine article la and the feminine adjective prima. A helpful tip: words ending in -nave (ship) are feminine!
Why do we use per instead of a for going to Mars?
When talking about transportation bound for a destination (like a train, plane, or spaceship), Italian uses the preposition per, similar to saying the spaceship for Mars in English. Also, notice that planets, just like cities, do not take a definite article (it is just Marte, not il Marte).

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