Hello,
Would it be correct to think of the Future Antérieur as a kind of other way of saying the Conditionnel Futur?
It seems like a conditionnel statement of the future?
Look at these regular verbs conjugated in the Futur antérieur:
The Futur antérieur is formed on the same model as the Passé Composé, except avoir is here conjugated in the Futur.
For -ER verbs, you form the past participle by replacing the -er ending with -é.
For -IR verbs, you form the past participle by replacing the -ir ending with -i.
For -DRE verbs, you form the past participle by replacing the -dre ending with -du.
Note: the exceptions of verbs with être instead of avoir are the same as in the Passé Composé.
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aimer
atteindre
attendre
choisir
compléter
entendre
Vous aurez entendu tellement de versions différentes!You will have heard so many different versions!
finir
gagner
grossir
Vous aurez bien grossi pendant vos vacances!You will have gained quite a bit of weight during your holidays!
perdre
progresser
ralentir
regretter
répondre
vieillir
voler
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The futur antérieur relates to something that happens before another event in the future. It has a purely temporal meaning and does not connote anything conditional.
Example: When mom (will) returns, Bob will have finished his homework! Both events -- mom's returning and Bob finishing his homework -- are in the future. But of the two, finishing the homework happens before mom gets home. Therefore that part is cast in past future in English. The use of past future tense works the same in French.
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Is the Future Antérieur kind of the Conditionnel Futur?
Hello,
Would it be correct to think of the Future Antérieur as a kind of other way of saying the Conditionnel Futur?
It seems like a conditionnel statement of the future?
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FionaKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Bavarder
Bonjour Chris
Elles ________ pendant tout le film !" They will have chatted during the whole film!HINT: Conjugate "bavarder" in Le Futur Antérieur
The correct answer was Elles auront bavarde pendant tout le film.
Why does bavarder here not agree in gender and number? Or am I missing something?
Please help, I have struggled with lesson for awhile now.
Asked 11 months ago
When the auxiliary verb is avoir, the participle doesn't generally match the subject, only when the auxiliary verb is être.
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Bavarder
Bonjour Chris
Elles ________ pendant tout le film !" They will have chatted during the whole film!HINT: Conjugate "bavarder" in Le Futur Antérieur
The correct answer was Elles auront bavarde pendant tout le film.
Why does bavarder here not agree in gender and number? Or am I missing something?
Please help, I have struggled with lesson for awhile now.
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DonaldKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Malgré tout vs.néanmoins
Puis-je utiliser le mot "néanmoins" au lieu de "malgré tout" dans cette phrase? La phrase est <Nous aurons apprécié ce repas malgré tout>. Est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose en particular avec malgré tout que j'aie peut-être raté? Je pense que vous voulez dire "despite everything".
Asked 1 year ago
Hi Donald,
Yes, you can say either....They both mean ‘nevertheless’...
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Malgré tout vs.néanmoins
Puis-je utiliser le mot "néanmoins" au lieu de "malgré tout" dans cette phrase? La phrase est <Nous aurons apprécié ce repas malgré tout>. Est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose en particular avec malgré tout que j'aie peut-être raté? Je pense que vous voulez dire "despite everything".
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StevenKwiziq community member
Le futur anterieur
I've always been confused by this: "j'aurai du" translates as "I should have" and not as "I will have had to...." but these are not quite the same, I think. "I will have had to catch the 22 bus" suggests that I did catch that particular bus, to achieve whatever, whereas "I should have" suggests that I didn't catch that bus, and perhaps failed in my intention. Similarly for "j'aurai pu" - "I could have" not "I will have been able".
Any advice/explanation appreciated!
Asked 1 year ago
Hi Steven ,
I think you are confusing the futur antérieur (future perfect) and the conditionnel antérieur (past conditional).
J'aurais dû = I should have
j'aurais pu = I could have
Note: aurais has an 's' here.
The futur antérieur relates to an action which is prior to another in the futur simple:
Dans deux ans ils auront fini les travaux, ( In 2 years time they will have finished the works)
Quand nous aurons fini les travaux dans la maison, nous irons en vacances. (When the work in the house is finished, we'll go on holiday)
Dés que nous aurons arrêté de fumer, nous repeindrons la maison.( Once we have stopped smoking we'll repaint the house)
Note that after words like when, as soon as, once denoting time we use the future in French as opposed to the present in English.
Hope this helps!
GruffKwiziq team member
Just to add a bit extra to Cécile's great answer, the first person forms of these two tenses sound identical, so you can only tell which is meant from the context. The conditional past introduces modal verbs (would/should) and so does devoir and that can get very complicated and confusing quickly.
Let's make it easier with a simpler verb (say 'manger') first:
Quand j'aurai mangé je t'appellerais. (Future perfect: When I will have eaten I'll call you. Or in more idiomatic English, Once I have eaten I'll call you.)
Si j'avais eu faim j'aurais mangé. (Conditional past: If I'd been hungry I would have eaten.)
In most cases, there's another tense and clause involved that gives clear context and often the literal translation isn't even in the same tense as the same idiomatic expression in English.
DEVOIR:
It's incredibly hard to contrive an example with devoir for the future anterieur (in either language) - it's unlikely you'll come across it at all.
J'aurai dû faire ça avant ton retour. (Future perfect: I will have had to do that by the time you get home.)
J'aurais dû t'appeler mais j'ai oublié. (Conditional past: I should have called you but I forgot.)
Hope that helps to clear away some of the confusion!
P.S. You can look up how to conjugate avoir to see (and listen to) all six forms of the [kwiziq_link type="lexical_feature" id=57] and [kwiziq_link type="lexical_feature" id=48].
Steven asked:View original
Le futur anterieur
I've always been confused by this: "j'aurai du" translates as "I should have" and not as "I will have had to...." but these are not quite the same, I think. "I will have had to catch the 22 bus" suggests that I did catch that particular bus, to achieve whatever, whereas "I should have" suggests that I didn't catch that bus, and perhaps failed in my intention. Similarly for "j'aurai pu" - "I could have" not "I will have been able".
Any advice/explanation appreciated!
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RichardKwiziq community member
when does the past participle agree in number and gender with the object ?
Asked 2 years ago
GruffKwiziq team member
Hi Richard - see section 5 of this page about agreement: https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/revision/glossary/inflection/agreement">https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/revision/glossary/inflection/agreement">https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/revision/glossary/inflection/agreement">https://kwiziq.learnfrenchwithalexa.com/revision/glossary/inflection/agreement
Hope that helps!
Hope that helps!
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when does the past participle agree in number and gender with the object ?
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JohnnyKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
atteint
You included an example of atteint but made no mention of the fact that it ends in t.
Asked 3 years ago
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atteint
You included an example of atteint but made no mention of the fact that it ends in t.
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UmiKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
What is the purpose of using this particular temps? In a daily conversation, is this used a lot?
Asked 3 years ago
LauraKwiziq team member
Bonjour Umi,
Not "a lot" but yes, it is an essential tense. It's used about as often in French as in English: to talk about something that will have happened in the future in correlation to another event.
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What is the purpose of using this particular temps? In a daily conversation, is this used a lot?
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