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Diese zehnte Stunde über die Zeitformen, the tenth tenses lesson, ist „Wie man das
Futur II benutzt“ (How to use the future perfect tense)
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… In this lesson, we will be looking at how
to form what is called the future perfect tense.
The perfect tense is normally used to express a completed action, and the future tense is
used to show us what will happen.
The future perfect tense, therefore, tells us what will have been done at a certain point
in the future.
Let’s look at some examples in English.
By tomorrow, I will have read this book.
In three years‘ time, we will have moved house.
Will he have done his homework by Monday?
… In order to produce this tense in German,
it’s important that you remember the forms of ‘werden’, the auxiliary verb we use
to mean ‘will’ or ‘going to’.
These forms are: ich werde
du wirst er/sie/es/man wird
wir werden ihr werdet
and Sie/sie werden.
It’s also important to remember that the future tense will need to have an infinitive
at the end of the clause.
We’ll come back to that later!
… To form the perfect tense, we use the ‘SHEP’
word order of ‘subject’, ‘helping verb’, ‘extra information’, and ‘past participle’.
If you need to recap how to use this tense, please go back and watch my perfect tense
video by clicking the banner now.
… To combine the future and the perfect tenses,
we have to do the following.
We take all the components of a future tense sentence, so we have:
Subject Form of werden
Extra information Infinitive.
Inside the ‘extra information’ section is where we will need to use the relevant
past participle.
The infinitive at the end of the clause that we mentioned earlier has to be the infinitive
of the relevant helping verb that we would use with the past participle, so either ‘haben’
or ‘sein’ depending on whether there is movement.
So let’s look at an example: ‘I will have read this book’
To form the main bulk of the sentence, we need
Subject: ich Form of ‘werden’: werde
Extra information: dieses Buch gelesen Infinitive of relevant helping verb:
In this instance, there is no movement when reading a book, and so the verb we need here
is ‘haben’.
Ich werde dieses Buch gelesen haben (I will have read this book).
… If you want to include phrases such as ‘by
(a certain time)’ these will go at the start of the extra information section.
In this case, ‘by’ a certain time is ‘bis’ and the accusative case.
Some useful phrases are: bis morgen = by tomorrow (this can also mean
‘see you tomorrow’ as a way of saying goodbye)
bin nächsten Montag = by next Monday bis nächste Woche = by next week
bis 2030 = by 2030.
‘I will have read this book by tomorrow‘ is therefore:
Ich werde bis morgen dieses Buch gelesen haben …
To finish, let’s translate the other two examples I gave.
In three years‘ time, we will have moved house.
In drei Jahren werden wir umgezogen sein  Notice that ‘moving house’ counts as movement
or a change of state, so we use ‘sein’ Will he have done his homework by Monday?
Wird er bis Montag seine Hausaufgaben gemacht haben?
As this is a question, we simply had to use inversion in order to start with the verb.
… And so that’s how to form the future perfect
tense.
It’s a really nice way to be able to explain your concrete plans, particularly when you
have a time frame in mind!
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… It’s a good idea to pause the video now
to recap what we’ve covered, including the future perfect tense word order of: subject,
form of werden, extra information, past participle, infinitive of helping verb.
… Habe ich etwas vergessen?
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