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The perfect tenses are formed by using the auxiliary verb to have and adding the past participle of the main verb. Thus, the future perfect is formed by taking the future tense of to have (will have) and adding the past participle of the main verb. Thus:

We will have seen this movie sixteen times by tomorrow night.

The future-perfect tense refers to an action that will be completed at some definite time in the future.

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