Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

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(c) Saying promises:
Se lo traeré mañana sin falta. (see 72.4)
I’ll bring it for you tomorrow without fail.
(d) Expressing probability with regard to something in the present:

^48 (p. 282);^50 (p. 296)
Estará con alguien. (see 48.1)
He/she must be with someone.
¿Estará en casa? (see 48.2)
Can he/she be at home?

17.6 Future perfect


17.6.1 Reference to future time


(a) Saying that something will happen before a moment in the future:
¿Lo habrás terminado para las cinco?
Will you have finished by five o’clock?

(b) Saying probability (corresponding to the perfect).

^48 (p. 282)
Ya se habrán enterado. (see 48.1)
They must have found out already.
¿Habrá salido el avión? (see 48.2)
Do you think the plane will have left?

17.7 Conditional


(a) Expressing a present or future hypothesis (the consequence of a conditional
sentence, see 18.2.4).
Si tuviéramos menos trabajo, tendríamos más tiempo libre.
If we had less work, we would have more spare time.
Yo que tú no iría. (see 67.1)
If I were you I wouldn’t go
¿Qué harías tú en mi lugar? (see 67.3)
What would you do in my position?
(b) In reported speech as the past equivalent of the future.

^33 (p. 196)
Me dijo Alicia que Ilegaría a las once.
Alicia told me she would arrive at eleven.
Pensábamos que nos encontrarían.
We thought they would find us.

Conditional 17.7

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