Friday, March 26, 2010

The Future Perfect

Future Perfect
  • The future perfect tense in spanish is formed using the future conjugation of haber and the past participle
  • The future perfect tense is used when describing what will have happened by a certain time
  • As well the future perfect can be used to speculate about something that may have happened in the past
  • The future conjugation of haber is yo- habre, tu- habras, el/ella- habra, nosotros- habremos, ellos/ellas- habran
  • To form the past particple add the suffix -ado to -ar verbs and -ido to -er and -ir verbs.
  • Example- Habre hablado- I will have spoken
  • Example- Habrás comprado una casa en un año?- Will you have bought a house in a year
  • The future perfect tense is often used with the phrase dentro de plus time
  • EX. Dentro de dos anos habre comido mucho cosas- In two years i will have eatan alot of things
  • As well the future perfect is often used to speculate
  • Ex: Se habre enterado de que no ibas- perhaps she found out you were not coming