FHUHS Spanish

The Future and Conditional Perfect Indicative (el futuro perfecto y el condicional perfecto) are compound tenses in Spanish and are formed by a future, or conditional, form of the verb haber, plus the past participle. Their use is very similar to the usage in English.

Future of Haber

Thus:

• Habré comido para las dos. (I will have eaten by 2 o’clock.)
• Habrán terminado cuando lleguemos. (They will have finished when we arrive.)

Conditional of Haber

Thus:

• Lo habrías hecho, ¿verdad? (You would have done it, right?)
• Te lo habríamos comprado, pero no pudimos. (We would have bought it for you, but we couldn’t.)

To review the formation of the simple future and conditional forms, ie., not the “perfect” compound forms, see the following:

• Formation of the Regular Future Indicative
• Formation of the Regular Conditional Indicative
• The Past, or Perfect Participles

The Future and Conditional Indicative tenses share the same stems in the formation of the irregular forms.

There are some patterns in the irregularity of the stems. The following are lists of common verbs which are irregular in the stem in both the future and conditional indicative, arranged by the nature of their irregularity:

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