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Constantinus Philo
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The only verbs that I have noticed in this tense are ἑστήξω and τεθνήξω. Anything else?
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Those are statives, functioning as the future of ἕστηκα and τέθνηκα: “I’ll be dead” rather than “I’ll have died,” so they’re not really to be thought of as future perfect.
In stark contrast with Latin, Greek has little use for the future perfect.
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