PAST FUTURE PERFECT


Meaning of PAST FUTURE PERFECT in English

I. adjective

Etymology: past (I) + future perfect, adjective

: of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense that is traditionally formed in English with would have or should have and denotes an action or state completed at a time formerly in prospect (as would have finished in “on Monday I saw that by Friday he would have finished”)

II. noun

1. : the past future perfect tense of a language

2. : a verb form in the past future perfect tense

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.