Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved. 10.1–1 The future perfect tense (el futuro perfecto) is formed with the future of haber and a past participle.
Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved. 10.1–2 The future perfect is used to express what will have happened at a certain point. The phrase para + [time expression] is often used with the future perfect. Ya habré leído la novela para el lunes. Para el año que viene, los arquitectos habrán diseñado el nuevo museo. I will already have read the novel by Monday. By next year, the architects will have designed the new museum.
Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved. 10.1–3 Antes de (que), cuando, dentro de, and hasta (que) are also used with time expressions or other verb forms to indicate when the action in the future perfect will have happened. Cuando lleguemos al teatro, ya habrá empezado la obra. Lo habré terminado dentro de dos horas. When we get to the theater, the play will have already started. I will have finished it within two hours.
Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved. 10.1–4 The future perfect may also express supposition or probability regarding a past action. ¿Habrá tenido éxito la exposición de este fin de semana? No lo sé, pero habrá ido mucha gente a verla. I wonder if this weekend’s exhibition was a success? I don’t know, but a lot of people must have gone to see it.