future perfect
Completed action ahead
Future perfect is a verb tense expressing action that will be completed before a specified future time: By tomorrow, I will have finished the report.
The construction uses "will have" plus a past participle.
It frames future events from a perspective beyond them, looking back at what will already be done: They will have left by the time we arrive.
Strained or nervous
- verbAction-expressing word
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
- aspectFeature or dimension
- conjugationVerb form variation system
pluperfect · indicative · subjunctive · conditional · progressive · modal · syntax · morphology
Belief about future outcomes
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- ambitionDesire for achievement
vision · promise · potential · dream · goal · intention · forecast · projection
Successful completion of aim
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
- realizationGrasping what's true
- culminationHighest or final point
- fruitionAttainment of goals
consummation · attainment · actualization · finish · conclusion · resolution · fulfillment · success
Foretelling of future events
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
augury · presage · oracle · portent · harbinger · omen · extrapolation · speculation
Imagined perfect society
- optimalMost desirable outcome
- flawlessEntirely without fault
- pristinePure and untouched
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
pinnacle · zenith · apotheosis · quintessence · paragon · ultimate · idyllic · best-case
tense
Strained or nervous
conjugation · pluperfect · indicative · subjunctive · conditional · progressive · modal · syntax · morphology · inflection
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
ambition · vision · promise · potential · dream · goal · intention · forecast · projection · planning
accomplishment
Successful completion of aim
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
- realizationGrasping what's true
- culminationHighest or final point
fruition · consummation · attainment · actualization · finish · conclusion · resolution · fulfillment · success · materialization
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
divination · augury · presage · oracle · portent · harbinger · omen · extrapolation · speculation · forewarning
utopia
Imagined perfect society
excellence · pinnacle · zenith · apotheosis · quintessence · paragon · ultimate · idyllic · best-case · golden age
- future tensewill be, will do, will have, will call, going to
- verb tensespast tense, present tense, past, present, simple past
- Latin verbssum, est, audio, lego, video
- perfect tenseshave done, had been
- verb grammarconjugation, tense, verb form, infinitive, verb tense
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
future perfectpast simple
Completed action tense
simple past · past tense · preterite · simple present · imperfect
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