Breakdown of Nuestra misión preparará la base en el desierto.
en
in / on / at
nuestro
our
preparar
to prepare
el desierto
desert
la
the (feminine)
la misión
the mission
la base
the base
Questions & Answers about Nuestra misión preparará la base en el desierto.
How is preparará formed in this sentence?
It is the future tense of the regular verb preparar (to prepare). To form the future tense of regular verbs, you do not remove the ending like you do in the present tense. Instead, you keep the whole infinitive (preparar) and add the future ending. Since nuestra misión acts as an 'it' (third-person singular), we add -á to get preparará.
Why is the accent mark on the last á in preparará so important?
It is crucial for pronunciation! The accent mark tells you to stress that final syllable (pre-pa-ra-RÁ). In the future tense, all endings except -emos have an accent mark. This ensures the spoken emphasis always falls heavily on the future ending rather than the original verb stem.
Why do we use Nuestra instead of Nuestro here?
Could I say va a preparar instead of preparará?
Absolutely! Nuestra misión va a preparar (Our mission is going to prepare) means almost the exact same thing and is extremely common in everyday spoken Spanish. However, the one-word future tense you see here (preparará) is often used to sound a bit more formal, to make confident predictions, or to talk about the distant future.
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