Examples of the Future Perfect

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Hello All,

Hopefully some of you will be able to help me out with the Greek Future Perfect. I am looking for examples of the Greek Future Perfect Active and Passive, and having done so (couldn’t resist…) will have a template to use in my own Greek speech. Where do the Future Perfect Active and Passive occur in the Ancient Greek corpus?

Thanks,
Elizabeth

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They occur in many different Greek texts, from Homer to Pindar, from Ionic and Attic to Koine, including Plato, Thucydides, and Hippocrates. Check e.g. Kühner—Blass § 229, where much is listed, or Schwyzer p. 783.

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Also, any Greek primer should list the forms. The future perfect and pluperfect are relatively rare compared to the other tenses in Greek, and compared to the equivalent usages in Latin (at least so it seems to my subjective impression), but you should have no trouble finding them. Then just learn to use them correctly…

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Thanks, Timothee. I will look at the examples in the resources you mentioned.

I can say “I will have washed the dishes,” but I am unsure how to say, “When we walk to the park this evening, I will have washed the dishes.” I was hoping to find some examples of this kind of sentence in the Greek literature.

How do I express “When we walk to the park this evening…”? Do I put “we walk” into the future tense? Is there a way to use a participle?