Latin B1: Had done, will have done: pluperfect & future perfect · Grammar

Both are built on the perfect stem (amav-, fu-, vid-, cep-). The pluperfect adds the imperfect of esse: amaveram, amaveras, amaverat… (I had loved). The future perfect adds forms like the future of esse: amavero, amaveris, amaverit… (I will have loved). Latin is strict about time: Si hoc feceris, laetus ero (if you do this — literally, will have done it — I will be happy).

• amaveram — I had loved
• fueram — I had been
• videram — I had seen
• amavero — I will have loved
• fecero — I will have done
• iam — already
• antequam — before (conjunction)
• postquam — after (conjunction)

• Iam abierat, cum adveni. — He had already left when I arrived.
• Cum cenaveris, dormies. — When you have eaten, you will sleep.
• Numquam talem urbem videram. — I had never seen such a city.
• Postquam epistulam legit, flevit. — After she read the letter, she wept.