decir means: to say, to tell, to speak, to mention
In this lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb decir in the Futuro Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
yo | habré dicho | I will have said |
tú | habrás dicho | you will have said |
él/ella/usted | habrá dicho | he/she/it will have said |
nosotros/nosotras | habremos dicho | we will have said |
vosotros/vosotras | habréis dicho | you will have said |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrán dicho | they will have said |
How to translate Futuro Perfecto to English
Notice that the English phrases in the third column of the above conjugation chart are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:- In Spanish, there is the form usted in the third person singular. But this person does not translate to the English third person singular. It translates to the so called formal you and uses the inflected form which is most often represented as he/she/it in English conjugation charts.
- Similar situation happens in the third person plural, where ustedes translates to the English plural formal you but uses the form which corresponds to the they form in English.
- Tenses are used differently in Spanish and English, so the actual translation should always take into account the context and focus on translating the meaning, not just words.
- In both languages each verb may have multiple meanings and not every meaning translates directly to the other language. Here also, the context and focusing on the particular meaning helps to create the most accurate translation.
Step by step instructions
Futuro Perfecto is a compound tense (Spanish: compuesto). It means that all of its conjugated forms consist of two words. In Spanish language, there are also simple tenses, where each conjugated verb form is one word long. In a compound tense the endings of the auxiliary verb change, not the endings of the main verb, which is the case in Spanish simple tenses. In the compound tenses, every person’s form consist of two parts:
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Refer to the conjugation charts and this haber conjugation lesson to learn how to conjugate the auxiliary verb haber. That’s a separate topic, so for brevity we are focusing on the parts derived from decir only here. This verb has an irregular Participle which needs to be memorized. It is dicho. |
In order to create the first person singular form, we simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo, which is habré. To that we add the Participio dicho to get habré dicho:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, and it is habrás. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio dicho (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrás dicho:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Futuro tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely habrá. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get habrá dicho:
The first person plural has the form habremos dicho. It’s created by following the same logic as in the other persons. We first take the form of the first person plural from haber conjugation in the Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense: habremos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of decir: dicho to get habremos dicho:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habréis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habréis dicho:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrán dicho. We create it in the exact same manner as in all the other grammatical persons. We need the third person plural of haber first, from its Futuro conjugation. It is habrán. We add the Participio of decir again (dicho) to get habrán dicho:
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That’s it! The conjugation is now finished. But don’t end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to remember it. Check below for next steps.
Next Steps
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