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The future perfect (futur antérieur in French) is a compound tense built with the future tense of the helping verbs avoir or être and the past participle of another verb.
Il aura mangé. > he will have eatenJe serai sorti. > I will be out.The future perfect mostly marks the accomplished aspect of a future event that will be over before another event.
Marking the accomplished aspect of a future event.
Marking the accomplished aspect of a future event.
The general value of the future perfect is to mark the accomplished, finished aspect of a future event at a specific moment.
Dans un mois, ils auront terminé la construction de leur chalet.Je suis certaine qu’il aura acheté une nouvelle voiture d’ici la fin de l’année.Marie aura bientôt payé toutes ses dettes.The use of the future perfect is often specified by a tense indicator.
To evoke a future fact which will be completed before the realization of another.
To evoke a future fact which will be completed before the realization of another.
The future perfect is also used to express another temporal value. It is commonly used to speak of a future fact that will be completed before the realization of another future fact.
In this use, the verb conjugated in the future perfect is related to a verb in the simple future.
Quand tu auras terminé (1) tes devoirs, tu pourras aller jouer (2) avec tes amies.Elle ne sera (2) satisfaite que lorsqu’elle aura trouvé (1) la maison de ses rêves.J’aurai déjà mangé (1) quand tu reviendras (2) de ton cours de danse.Express a hypothesis or supposition
Express a hypothesis or supposition
The future perfect has other specific uses. Among other things, it can be used to express, in relation to a present fact, a hypothesis or supposition that can explain this fact.
Ils sont en retard; ils auront sans doute été retardés par un embouteillage.J’aurai oublié mes clés au restaurant ? Je ne les trouve plus.In this usage, the future perfect is equivalent to a past tense imbued with the idea of possibility.
Expressing nuances of emotions
Expressing nuances of emotions
Finally, the future perfect can express different affective nuances, in particular indignation, but also surprise, regret, irony.
Eh bien, on aura tout vu!Encore une fois, je serai venu pour rien.Google Sites
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