The future tense of verbs that end in -care and -gare

Verbs that end in -care and -gare, like giocare (to play), nevicare (to snow), navigare (to navigate), pagare (to pay), etc., are irregular in the future tense and they are conjugated with the insertion of an h after the c or the g in all the forms, like this:

Giocare
Io giocherò
Tu giocherai
Lui/lei giocherà
Noi giocheremo
Voi giocherete
Loro giocheranno
Pagare
Io pagherò
Tu pagherai
Lui/lei pagherà
Noi pagheremo
Voi pagherete
Loro pagheranno
Navigare
Io navigherò
Tu navigherai
Lui/lei navigherà
Noi navigheremo
Voi navigherete
Loro navigheranno

Domani giocheremo al parco.

We will play at the park tomorrow.

Pagherò da sola il mio viaggio. 

I will pay for my trip myself.

Other verbs that are conjugated like this are nevicare (to snow) nevicare, futuro sporcare (to get something dirty, to soil) sporcare, futuro, pregare (to plead, to pray) pregare, futuro, caricare (to load, to charge) caricare, futuro, piegare (to fold, to bend) piegare, futuro, and elencare (to list) elencare, futuro.




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