future perfect
Noun
Meaning
a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
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Examples
A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect
As such, the perfect becomes the present, the pluperfect becomes the imperfect, and the future perfect becomes the future.
However, the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect do not have personal endings in the passive voice.
Tenses that refer to the past relative to the time under consideration are called anterior; these include the pluperfect (for the past relative to a past time) and the future perfect (for the past relative to a future time).
Future perfect Probably the least used of all the tenses, the future perfect (Latin tempus futūrum exāctum) conveys an action that will have been completed before another action.