Future Perfect

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The last of the indicative perfect tenses, future perfect sums up what someone "will have" done. It is an odd mutant hybrid of both future and past tense merged into a very simple tense - though all the perfect tenses should be incredibly easy to pick up since the only one we don't have in English is the subjunctive. Future perfect uses the simple future conjugation of haber, and it's easier now than with past perfect since we went over simple future already. Here are the conjugations:

Yo: habré

Tú: habrás

Él, ella, ud.: habrá

Nosotros: habremos

Vosotros: habréis

Uds., ellos/ellas: habrán

Spanish - we put the "simple" in simple future! Below are some examples:

Habré lavado las sábanas. |I will have washed the sheets.

Habrás comido. |You will have eaten.

Ud. habrá dicho para mañana. |You will have spoken by tomorrow.

Habremos escrito esa carta. |We will have written that letter.

Habrán curado esa enfermedad. |They will have cured that illness*.

*Disease works as a viable translation as well.

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