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*We will not have saved enough money for the trip yet.

Wir werden noch nicht genug Geld für die Reise gespart haben.

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*I will have ran by 7 o'clock.

Ich werde um 7 Uhr gelaufen sein.

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The Future perfect - Get a better understanding

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*Your father will have married my mother by then.

Bis dahin wird dein Vater meine Mutter geheiratet haben.

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Half - past simple, Beendet hatte - past perfect

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* I helped my sister do homework after I had finished my job.

Ich half meiner Schwester, die Hausaufgaben zu machen, nachdem ich meine Arbeit beendet hatte.

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Eintraf - past simple, hatten verlassen - past perfect

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*We had just left the party when the police arrived.

Wir hatten gerade die Party verlassen, als die Polizei eintraf.

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Blieb - past simple, erhalten hatte - past perfect

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*My brother stayed up all night because he had received bad news about his business.

Mein Bruder blieb die ganze Nacht wach, weil er schlechte Nachrichten über sein Geschäft erhalten hatte.

Subject

Werden

+ Past participle - sein

Past participle - Haben

Ich

werde

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Du

wirst

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Er/ Sie/ Ist

wird

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Wir

werden

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Ihr

werdet

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Sie/ sie

werden

gegangen sein

gemacht haben

Structure: Subject + Werden (present tense) + Past participle + Auxiliary verb (sein/haben) infinitive forms

The Future perfect

Subject	Sein	+ Past participle	Haben	+ Past participle
Ich	war	gereist	hatte	getrunken
Du	warst	gereist	hattest	getrunken
Er/ Sie/ Ist	war	gereist	hatte	getrunken
Wir	waren	gereist	hatten	getrunken
Ihr	wart	gereist	hattet	getrunken
Sie/ sie	waren	gereist	hatten	getrunken

Structure: Subject + Auxiliary verb (sein/haben) at the past simple forms + Past participle

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Cats are lovely and may prove to be a good company for you while learning or struggling with German.

Here's the perfect place for animal lovers and German learners!

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Take your chance and try to guess what these sentences mean ! Afterwards, follow the structure to get a better understanding !

Mrs. Purrplexed wants to play!

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Mr. Puddle: No scam here, Lady Scam. Just knowledge!

Mr. Puddle: The perfect tenses “present/past/future perfect” are very important for any student who learns German because all the structures with haben & sein, the word order in clauses prove to be the trickiest in the perfect tenses.

Lady Scam: I’ve got a complete understanding of all tenses from a grammatical point of view but I’m aware that I should practice all the time so I’m ready for exercises! Don't scam me!

Lady Scam: I thought this lesson would be hard… yet it wasn’t so difficult to understand! This must be a scam!

I. Theory and definitions: Past and Future Perfect in German

Past and Future Perfect in German

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✔️ Follow the sentences and see how the structures work. You may wanna play with Mrs. Purrplexed too while trying to translate some of them!

V. Let's practice! - Past and future perfect

IV. Purrrfection explained! - Past and future perfect

✔️ Use Past perfect every time when you want to express an action preceding a past action

✔️ At the past perfect you should know the past simple form of auxiliary verbs (haben/ sein) because it’s simple to present perfect due to the presence of the past participle

✔️ Future perfect is based on subjective assumptions regarding the completion of future actions or past action by the time of speaking

✔️ It’s easy to remember because we use werden which is conjugated at the present tense, past participle + haben/ sein at infinitive

III. Tips & Tricks : How to learn them easily? - Past and future perfect

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II. Practical examples - Past and future perfect

The Past perfect - Get a better understanding

The Past perfect

As you already have noticed:

Past perfect in German “She had fallen asleep” is the equivalent of the English Past perfect because it indicates an action preceding a past action

➔ The past action is either at Past simple or Past perfect

Future perfect is used for making assumptions about future events “She will have passed” that will be completed by a certain moment in future

➔ Future perfect sometimes is used for past actions “the war will have ended” that are already completed by the time of speaking “By the time their army got there”

She had fallen asleep in the waiting before you arrived.

She will have passed all exams by the end of the week.

By the time their army got there the war will have ended.

✔️ To understand the perfect tenses, please look at the context of the highlighted words and try figuring out their role, without reading further; when you’re finished, continue the lesson

Fill in the gaps with corresponding forms of past and future perfect

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1. I will have attended the German classes before I come to the party.

2. Her friend didn't have any money because he had lost his wallet on the train.

3.I will have all the necessary books arranged in class before the workshop begins

4. We couldn't get any concert tickets because we had not booked in advance

5. By the time she reads the letter I'll have been gone

6. He explained that he had called , he police because of the music

7. The bus had left when he arrived at the station

8. His sister has made a lot of money when she became a celebrity