![]() ![]() I will see you tomorrow, when I (will have) come home.īecause mortuus, a, um is the perfect participle of morior but also the adjective meaning “dead,” both translations are possible. We will have given the money to the teacher. The mouse will have wanted a cup of milk. The students will have remained in school. The army will have crossed (gone across) into the territory of the enemy. New Vocabulary Latinįīnis, fīnis, fīnium (gender f., m. The Romans were very practical this way, and probably spent less time worrying and more time acting. It’s a great way of looking at a future task that you are dreading and visualizing it as complete. It emphasizes that at some point in the future, the action will have happened. In practice, Latin sometimes uses future perfect tense where we would normally use the regular future tense. (deponent verb) loquor, loquī, locūtus sum (regular verb) vocō, vocāre, vocāvī, vocātus You’ll notice the 3rd person plural, -erint, is the only one that is different from the conjugation of sum in the regular future tense (and that is probably because –erunt is already used as an ending for the perfect tense).įor deponent verbs, take the perfect participle, which is the third and final principal part for deponent verbs, and add the future tense of sum as a helping verb.Įxempli gratia, in the 3rd person plural: –erō, -eris, -erit, -erimus, -eritis, -erintĪre added to the perfect stem (from the 3rd principal part of regular verbs). Though it’s not used frequently in English, it is used a little more frequently in Latin. ![]() This lesson will complete our survey of the three perfect tenses of the indicative active, with the future perfect tense. If you would like to catch up, you can find a directory of lessons, a classified vocabulary list, and Memrise courses at the links on the right. Here you can peruse a new lesson in Latin, in a simple format. ![]() Salvēte omnēs! Welcome back to Latin for Wikiversity. ![]()
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