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Italian Future Perfect Tense
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How to express the idea of "I will have" or "they will have"? Use the futuro anteriore or future perfect tense. Here is what it looks like:
Alle sette avremo già mangiato. (By seven we'll already have eaten.)
Noi avremo parlato al padre di Anna. (We will already have spoken to Anna's father.)
The futuro anteriore is a compound tense formed with the regular future-tense form of the auxiliary verb avere or essere and the past participle of the acting verb. The table below contains the full conjugation forms of verbs in futuro anteriore.
| FUTURO ANTERIORE CONJUGATIONS OF AVERE AND ESSERE |
|---|
| PERSON | SINGULAR | PLURAL |
|---|
| I | (io) avrò avuto, sarò andato(a) | (noi) avremo avuto, saremo andati(e) |
| II | (tu) avrai avuto, sarai andato(a) | (voi) avrete avuto, sarete andati(e) |
| III | (lui, lei, Lei) avrà avuto, sarà andato(a) | (loro, Loro) avranno avuto, saranno andati(e) |
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