The future perfect tense in Spanish, similar to its use in English, describes events that will happen and be completed in the future by a certain time or happen after another event is completed in the future.
The future perfect tense uses the auxiliary verb “haber” in the future tense followed by a past participle.
The auxiliary “haber” in future tense serves a similar function to the auxiliary “will have” in English, e.g., “I will have done my homework by the time they come.”
Conjugation
The verb “haber” in the future form is conjugated as follows:
| -ar ending e.g., hablar | -er ending e.g., comer | -ir ending e.g., vivir | ||
| yo | habré | hablado | comido | vivido |
| tú | habrás | |||
| él/ella/usted | habrá | |||
| nosotros/-as | habremos | |||
| vosotros/-as | habréis | |||
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrán |
Remember from Level III, Lesson 6 that some verbs have irregular past participle forms.
Examples
Let us look at some examples in context in the future perfect tense in Spanish:
| yo | habré | Yo habré visitado Egipto en enero. | I will have visited Egypt in January. |
| tú | habrás | Tú habrás bebido el café. | You will have drunk the coffee. |
| él/ella/usted | habrá | Ella habrá hablado con su madre. | She will have spoken to her mother. |
| nosotros/-as | habremos | Nosotros habremos comido. | We will have eaten. |
| vosotros/-as | habréis | Vosotros habréis llegado. | You will have arrived. |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrán | Ellos habrán vivido aquí. | They will have lived here. |
Next: Irregular Verbs in the Preterite Tense
Other lessons in Level IV:
Level IV – Intermediate
2. Past Tense: Preterite vs. Imperfect
6. Time Expressions: Todavía, Aún, Ya, Hace, Acabar, and Desde
