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Future Indicative
In Latin, the Future Indicative tense was synthetic, formed by adding: -bo,-bis,-bit,-bimus,-bitis,-bunt in 1st and 2nd conjugations; & -am,-es,-et,-emus,-etis,-ent in 3rd and 4th conjugations.

With the loss of vowel length and betacism, these forms became somehard hard to distinguish with other tenses: some of the 1st and 2nd future conjugated forms became more similar if not outright homophonous to the perfect forms; if further reduced, they resemble the present forms:

The 3rd and 4th future conjugated forms became more similar to the present indicative forms with the help of collapse of vowel lengths and opening of the front close unrounded vowel; & the first person singular conjugation was already the same in spelling as the present subjunctive form (only distinguished by context): * vēndēmus (CL /weːnˈdeː.mus/ > PR /βenˈde.mʊs/) * vēndimus (CL /ˈweːn.di.mus/ > PR /ˈβen.de.mʊs/) (The only difference between these forms was the accent, but overtime the future forms pervailed over the present forms as the stress became predominately penultimate in Romance (this could also be influenced from the 2nd conjugation), the future quality got lost in this process. We see this exemplified in the fossilized form eres in Spanish [you are] from the Latin future eris [you will be])

With the fading of the synthetic forms, the future was rendered through periphrastic means, they were numerous even during the Classical era of the language: