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Unit 11

Compound Tenses:

The Fntnre Perfect and tlie Conditional Perfect

The Futurę Perfeet

In English, the futurę perfect tense describes an action or event that will be completed at a moment in the futurę, before some other action or event takes place. As with other compound tenses, the futurę perfect consists of two elements: an auxiliary verb plus a past participle. In the sentence: I will have waited at least an hourby the time you arrive at the airport, the action of waiting will have taken place before the action expressed in you arrwe. Notę that in the English sentence, you arńve is expressed in the present tense, not in the futurę.

In Spanish, the equivalent tense is el futuro perfecto.

As usual, the forms of the futurę tense of haber are used as the auxiliary verb of the futurę perfect. The past participle follows the auxiliary.

Here are examples of the three conjugations pagar, vender, and salir in the futurę perfect:

habre pagado, vendido, salido habras pagado, vendido, salido habra pagado, vendido, salido

habremos pagado, vendido, salido habreis pagado, vendido, salido habran pagado, vendido, salido

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