Future perfect tense

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Function

The future perfect tense is used to refer to an event that will have happened before another future event.

Bis Ende dieser Woche wird er sein Examen bestanden haben.

By the end of this week, he will have passed his exam.

With the adverbs wohl or schon, it refers to a probable event in the past.

Er wird sein Examen schon bestanden haben.

He probably has already passed his exam.

Form

The future perfect tense is formed with the future tense helping verb werden and the perfect infinitive (past participle + infinitive of its compound past helping verb) of the main verb.

Du wirst das wohl gehört haben.
Bis morgen werde ich alles gelernt haben.
Bis n์hste Woche werden wir nach Italien gefahren sein.

You have probably heard that.
By tomorrow, I will have learned everything.
By next week, we will have travelled to Italy.