The futur antérieur corresponds to the English future perfect tense and we use to talk about an event that will have happened by a certain time in the future.
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D'ici là, ils se seront mariés.
By then, they will have married.
Using the Futur Antérieur
Rule 1: The futur antérieur expresses an event in the future, that are already finished before another event in the future.
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Tu pourras jouer aux jeux vidéo quand tu auras fait tes devoirs.
You can play video games when you have done your homework
- To express predictions or suppositions about what may have happened in the future.
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Il aura probablement été expulsé.
He'll probably have got expelled.
Forming the Futur Antérieur
Rule 2: This tense is formed by using the future form of avoir or être together with the past participle of the verb.
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Elle sera arrivée d'ici là.
She will have arrived by then.
Nous aurons gagné à notre troisième essai.
We'll have won by our third try.
Rule 3: The usage of avoir and être, as well as the agreement of the past participle, are identical to the [object Promise] or other compound tenses.
- Just like there, in negative sentences, the past participle comes after the second part of the negation.
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Nous n'aurons pas gagné.
We won't have won.
- When used with reflexive verbs, the reflexive pronoun and the auxiliary verb come after the first negation but before the second one.
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Elle ne se sera pas réveillée d'ici là.
She won't have woken up by then.
- Reflexive verbs and certain verbs of motion are used with the auxiliary verb être, while other are used with avoir.
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Je serai parti d'ici lundi.
I will have gone by Monday.
J'aurai dormi d'ici là.
I will have slept by then.
Quiz
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Put the verb into the right form in the futur antérieur: parler
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correct answers.