Verb drill
Aura fini → aurait fini: French reported future-perfect drill
Preserve a completion deadline in past reported speech. Practise conditional auxiliaries, être agreement and eight future-perfect transformations.
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In short
When you report a future-perfect statement from a past viewpoint, j’aurai fini becomes elle aurait fini: “she would have finished”. Keep the deadline and the original auxiliary. With être, je serai rentrée becomes elle serait rentrée.
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How does the future perfect change in reported speech?
| Moment | What happens |
|---|---|
| 4 May | Léa promises completion before 8 May. |
| 8 May | The deadline she names. |
| 11 May | A colleague reports the earlier promise from that past viewpoint. |
Le 4 mai, Léa a promis : « J’aurai terminé avant le 8 mai. »
On 4 May, Léa promised: “I will have finished before 8 May.”
Le 11 mai, Sami a raconté que Léa avait promis qu’elle aurait terminé avant le 8 mai.
On 11 May, Sami said that Léa had promised she would have finished before 8 May.
Completion is later than the promise and due before 8 May. Aurait terminé preserves that relationship. The form reports the promised completion; the later outcome comes in a separate sentence, such as elle a tenu sa promesse or elle a demandé un délai.
| Subject | avoir | être |
|---|---|---|
| je / j’ | aurais | serais |
| tu | aurais | serais |
| il / elle / on | aurait | serait |
| nous | aurions | serions |
| vous | auriez | seriez |
| ils / elles | auraient | seraient |
elle aurait finishe would have finished
Focus: avoir + past participle
Elle avait promis qu’elle aurait fini avant midi.
She had promised she would have finished before noon.
elles seraient rentréesthey would have returned
Focus: être + agreement with a feminine plural subject
Elles avaient annoncé qu’elles seraient rentrées avant minuit.
They had announced they would have returned before midnight.
In these examples, the conditional perfect carries a future completion seen from the earlier statement. The same form also appears in regrets and conditions, so the reporting context matters. A report that keeps a current future viewpoint can retain the future perfect: elle a confirmé qu’elle aura fini demain. Here, every drill row explicitly asks for the past viewpoint.
Eight past-viewpoint transformations
Write the complete compound verb in the gap. Each hint gives the original future-perfect form. The reporting subject is already supplied. Keep avant or d’ici and the deadline. With être, check the named person or group before choosing the participle ending.
1 · Keep avoir and the completion deadline
- Léa avait promis qu’elle avant midi. (j’aurai fini → past viewpoint)
- Tu avais dit que tu avant lundi. (j’aurai terminé → past viewpoint)
- Nous avions annoncé que nous d’ici vendredi. (nous aurons répondu → past viewpoint)
- Les collègues avaient assuré qu’ils avant la réunion. (nous aurons tout vérifié → past viewpoint)
2 · Keep être and the right agreement
- Léa avait dit qu’elle avant minuit. (je serai rentrée → past viewpoint)
- Paul avait promis qu’il avant dix heures. (je serai arrivé → past viewpoint)
- Nora et Inès avaient annoncé qu’elles avant midi. (nous serons parties → past viewpoint)
- Paul et Marc avaient dit qu’ils avant le dîner. (nous serons revenus → past viewpoint)