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FUTURE PERFECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does future perfect mean?
• FUTURE PERFECT (noun)
The noun FUTURE PERFECT has 1 sense:
1. a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
Familiarity information: FUTURE PERFECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
future perfect; future perfect tense
Context example:
'I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect
Hypernyms ("future perfect" is a kind of...):
perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect))
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