Futur Antérieur

The futur antérieur corresponds to the English future perfect tense and we use to talk about an event that will have happened by a certain time in the future.

Using the Futur Antérieur

Rule 1: The futur antérieur expresses an event in the future, that are already finished before another event in the future.

- To express predictions or suppositions about what may have happened in the future.

Forming the Futur Antérieur

Rule 2: This tense is formed by using the future form of avoir or être together with the past participle of the verb.

Rule 3: The usage of avoir and être, as well as the agreement of the past participle, are identical to the [object Promise] or other compound tenses.

- Just like there, in negative sentences, the past participle comes after the second part of the negation.

- When used with reflexive verbs, the reflexive pronoun and the auxiliary verb come after the first negation but before the second one.

- Reflexive verbs and certain verbs of motion are used with the auxiliary verb être, while other are used with avoir.