Future perfect and future in the past

Besides the plain future and conditional, the particle do combines with the perfect forms to make three more tenses. Together they cover what will have happened, what must have happened, and what was going to happen from a point in the past.

The three forms

Form	Built from	Example (punoj)
Future perfect	do të + the subjunctive of kam + participle	do të kem punuar
Future past perfect	do të + the imperfect of kam + participle	do të kisha punuar
Future imperfect	do të + the imperfect	do të punoja

Class 6 verbs use jam: do të jem larë, do të isha larë.

	Future perfect punoj (kam)	Future perfect lahem (jam)
unë	do të kem punuar	do të jem larë
ti	do të kesh punuar	do të jesh larë
ai, ajo	do të ketë punuar	do të jetë larë
ne	do të kemi punuar	do të jemi larë
ju	do të keni punuar	do të jeni larë
ata, ato	do të kenë punuar	do të jenë larë

Future perfect: will have done

1. Finished before a future moment

The future perfect describes an action that will be complete before some later point in the future. It is used rarely in Albanian, mostly when the order of two future events must be made clear:

Nesër në mbrëmje do të kem mbaruar punën. "Tomorrow evening I will have finished the work."
Kur të vish, do të kem mbaruar. "When you come, I will have finished."

2. A probability about the past

More often, the future perfect expresses the speaker's supposition that something has already happened. It works like the perfect subjunctive with mund, and corresponds to English "must have", "I suppose he has":

A do të ketë ardhur ai? "I wonder whether he has come."
Do të ketë fjetur. "He must have slept."

Future past perfect: must have, in the past

Do të kisha + participle has the same form as the perfect conditional. As a "probability" tense it says that something must have happened before a past moment:

Do të kishte fjetur. "He must have been asleep (at that time)."

Whether do të kisha shkuar means "I would have gone" (a perfect conditional) or "I must have gone" is decided by the context.

Future imperfect: the future seen from the past

Do të + the imperfect, the same form as the conditional, also expresses what was going to happen from a moment in the past. It appears mostly in reported speech after a verb of saying, thinking or hoping in the past:

Ai më tha se do të vinte nesër. "He told me that he would come tomorrow."

The speaker's original words were in the future (Do të punojmë "We will work"); after a past verb the future moves back to do të punonin "they would work".

do të + imperfect	Meaning
as the main clause of an "if" sentence	conditional: Po të vinte, do të punonim. "If he came, we would work."
in reported speech after a past verb	future in the past: Tha se do të punonim. "He said that we would work."

Watch out: all three of these forms are rare in speech. If you only need the basic ideas, the future, the present perfect and the conditional are enough to express "will", "has done" and "would".