ќе имам + -но

The Future Have-Perfect

Level 4Sounds Like ḱe imam + -no

Ќе имам + the -но form looks back from a future moment: До петок ќе имам завршено. (I will have finished by Friday.)

How It Works

This is the future of the have-perfect (see има-перфект: имам; немам + -но; -то). It says that by a certain point in the future, something will already be done, like English will have finished.

Form: ќе + the present of има + the neuter verbal adjective (see идно време: ќе + сегашно време):

  • ќе имам завршено — I will have finished
  • ќе имаш завршено · ќе има завршено
  • ќе имаме завршено · ќе имате завршено · ќе имаат завршено

Only имам changes for person; завршено stays the same. Short pronouns go between ќе and имам: ќе го имам завршено.

Naming the future point:

  • with до: До петок ќе имам завршено. (By Friday I will have finished.)
  • with кога ќе: Кога ќе стигнеш, ние веќе ќе имаме јадено. (When you arrive, we will already have eaten.) See кога ќе.

Negative: as with the ordinary future, use нема да (see нема да): Нема да имам завршено до понеделник. (I will not have finished by Monday.)

A good guess: with досега (by now), the same form can express what is probably already true: Досега тие веќе ќе имаат стигнато. (They will have arrived by now.)

The same idea looking back from the past is имав + -но.

Examples (6)

  1. До петок ќе имам завршено.

    I will have finished by Friday.

    Word by Word: By Friday will I-have finished.

  2. Кога ќе стигнеш, ние веќе ќе имаме јадено.

    When you arrive, we will already have eaten.

    Word by Word: When will you-arrive, we already will we-have eaten.

  3. До крајот на годината ќе имам прочитано педесет книги.

    By the end of the year I will have read fifty books.

    Word by Word: By end-the of year-the will I-have read fifty books.

  4. Утре во ова време ќе го имам завршено испитот.

    This time tomorrow I will have finished the exam.

    Word by Word: Tomorrow in this time will it I-have finished exam-the.

    The short pronoun го goes between ќе and имам.

  5. Нема да имам завршено до понеделник.

    I will not have finished by Monday.

    Word by Word: Not-has to I-have finished by Monday.

  6. Досега тие веќе ќе имаат стигнато.

    They will have arrived by now.

    Word by Word: By-now they already will they-have arrived.

    Here the form is a confident guess about the present.

Common Mistakes

  • Using the l-form instead of the -но form.

    До петок ќе имам завршил.
    До петок ќе имам завршено.

    After ќе имам comes the neuter verbal adjective in -но or -то, not the l-form in -л.

  • Putting the verb in the present tense after ќе имам.

    До петок ќе имам завршам.
    До петок ќе имам завршено.

    Имам already carries the person, so the main verb must be the unchanging -но form.

  • Not matching имам to the subject.

    Ние до петок ќе имам завршено.
    Ние до петок ќе имаме завршено.

    Имам changes for person like the verb има: ние takes имаме.

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ќе имам + -ноLevel 4The Future Have-Perfect

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The future have-perfect combines the have-perfect and ќе.

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