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No podremos ir a la fiesta.

No podremos ir a la fiesta.
We will not be able to go to the party.
From Lesson 177:The future tense (hablaré, tendré)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of No podremos ir a la fiesta.

no
no / not
ir
to go
a
to
la fiesta
the party
poder
to be able to

Questions & Answers about No podremos ir a la fiesta.

Why is it podremos and not poderemos?
The verb poder (to be able to) is irregular in the future tense. Instead of keeping the full infinitive and adding the ending, it drops the e to form the stem podr-. Then you add the standard future ending for we, which is -emos, to get podremos.
Why is ir in the infinitive form here?
When two verbs are used together to express a single idea, only the first verb is conjugated. Because podremos already shows the tense (future) and the subject (we), the second verb ir (to go) must stay in its unconjugated infinitive form.
Why is there no Spanish word for we in this sentence?
In Spanish, the subject pronoun like nosotros or nosotras is usually dropped. The ending of the verb podremos already makes it perfectly clear that the subject is we. You only need to include it if you really want to emphasize who is doing the action.
Why do we use a right after ir?
The preposition a translates to to. In Spanish, whenever you use a verb of motion like ir (to go) to say you are going to a destination, it must be followed by a.

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