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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will learn how to inflect the verb poder in the Futuro Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.
How to translate Futuro Perfecto to English
Note that the phrases in English provided below next to each conjugation are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:- In Spanish conjugation, 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 inflected forms consist of two words. In Spanish language, there are also simple tenses, where each conjugated verb form is one word long.A compound tense is indicated by the ending of the auxiliary verb, not by the ending of the main verb, which is the case in Spanish simple tenses.In the compound tenses, every person’s form consist of two parts:
- A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Futuro Perfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo (Future) conjugation of haber
- Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
- the stem is: pod-
- and the ending is: -er
And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s move on with creating the final conjugation forms. In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo, which is habré. To that we add the Participio podido to get habré podido:
- yo habré podido – I will have been able
- tú habrás podido – you will have been able
- él habrá podido – he will have been able
- ella habrá podido – she will have been able
- usted habrá podido – (formal) you will have been able
- nosotros habremos podido – we will have been able
- nosotras habremos podido – (feminine) we will have been able
- vosotros habréis podido – (plural) you will have been able
- vosotras habréis podido – (feminine, plural) you will have been able
- ellos habrán podido – they will have been able
- ellas habrán podido – (feminine) they will have been able
- ustedes habrán podido – (formal, plural) you will have been able
Hurray! The conjugation is now complete. The final result looks as follows:
yo | habré podido | I will have been able |
tú | habrás podido | you will have been able |
él/ella/usted | habrá podido | he/she/it will have been able |
nosotros/nosotras | habremos podido | we will have been able |
vosotros/vosotras | habréis podido | you will have been able |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrán podido | they will have been able |
But do not end your session yet – it’s important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for next steps.
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