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§472. Tenses of the Indicative

The Future denotes an action or state that will occur hereafter.

a. The Future may have the force of an Imperative (§ 449. b).

b. The Future is often required in a subordinate clause in Latin where in English futurity is sufficiently expressed by the main clause:

  • cum aderit vidēbit, when he is there he will see (cf. § 547).
  • sānābimur sī volēmus (Tusc. 3.13), we shall be healed if we wish (cf. § 516. a).

COMPLETED ACTION: PERFECT TENSE

Perfect Definite and Historical Perfect

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.