Glossary term F

Future Perfect Tense

Future perfect tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located before a contextually determined temporal reference point that must be located in the future relative to the moment of utterance.

(English)

  • By that time, he will have returned.
  1. Comrie 1985b, 69-71
  2. Mish 1991, 501
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