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O planeta ficará vazio no futuro?

O planeta ficará vazio no futuro?
Will the planet become empty in the future?
From Lesson 103:Future indicative of regular verbs (-rei, -rás, -rá)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O planeta ficará vazio no futuro?

How is the future tense verb ficará formed?
To form the future indicative of regular verbs, you take the full infinitive (ficar) and add the future endings. For the ele/ela/você form (which covers o planeta), the ending is -á. So, ficar + á = ficará. The accent mark shows that the spoken stress falls on that final syllable.
Doesn't ficar normally mean to stay? Why does it translate to become here?
Yes, ficar usually means to stay or to remain. But when it is followed by an adjective like vazio, it means to become or to get. This is why ficará vazio translates to will become empty.
Why is the adjective vazio masculine when planeta ends in an -a?
Even though planeta ends in an -a, it is a masculine noun (o planeta). Adjectives must agree with the gender of the noun they describe, so we use the masculine form vazio. Many Portuguese words of Greek origin that end in -ta or -ma (like o problema) are masculine exceptions to the rule!
Why do we use no before futuro?
In Portuguese, we need the definite article before the word futuro when talking about the future in general. We combine the preposition em (in) with the masculine article o (the), which contracts into no (in the).

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