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El robot tendrá tiempo para programar la máquina.

El robot tendrá tiempo para programar la máquina.
The robot will have time to program the machine.
From Lesson 124:The irregular future tense (tendr-, har-, podr-...)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El robot tendrá tiempo para programar la máquina.

para
for
el robot
robot
la máquina
machine
programar
to program
tener tiempo
to have time

Questions & Answers about El robot tendrá tiempo para programar la máquina.

Why is it tendrá instead of "tenerá"?
In the future tense, tener (to have) is irregular. Normally, you just add the future endings to the full infinitive, but tener changes its stem to tendr-. Then we add the standard "he/she/it" ending -á to match el robot.
Why do we use para before programar?
When you mean "in order to" or are expressing the purpose of something, Spanish uses para followed directly by an infinitive verb (like programar). Even though English just says "time to program", the meaning here is having time in order to program the machine.
I sometimes see vez translated as "time". Why use tiempo here?
You use tiempo when talking about time in the general, measurable sense, like having enough hours or minutes to complete a task. Vez is used for countable instances or occurrences, like saying "una vez" (one time) or "otra vez" (another time).
Why does máquina have an accent mark?
The accent mark shows you exactly where to put the spoken stress. Words that end in a vowel naturally put the stress on the second-to-last syllable (ma-QUI-na). Since the stress actually belongs on the first syllable (MÁ-qui-na), Spanish requires an accent mark there to break the normal rule.

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