Italian
The future perfect is used to say that something will happen in the future, but before the time of the main sentence. It is called futuro anteriore and is formed by the auxiliary verbs "to be" (essere) and "to have" (avere) in the future simple tense -transitive or intransitive verb-, adding the past participle. For example:
Io avrò mangiato ("I will have eaten")
Io sarò andato/a ("I will have gone")
It is used for the Italian deduction in the past as the same meaning of "must"; also for the English expression "By the time/When I have done this, you will have done that" Italian uses the double future : "By the time/When I avrò fatto this, you avrai fatto that".
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