Future tense sentence with time involved

Question

How do you say something like, After next Sunday he will have been working on it for three years?

Here's my attempt: Después del domingo que viene, él lo habré estado trabajando desde hace tres años

Welcome to the forum, :) - 00494d19, Aug 4, 2011

del - lorenzo9, Aug 4, 2011

Answer 1

After next Sunday he will have been working on it for three years?

Here's my attempt: Después de el domingo que viene, él lo habré estado trabajando desde hace tres años

TEchnically this is future perfect progressive.

The perfect progressive form in Spanish is best translated with: llevar+ gerundio

so, a present perfect progressive:

Llevo trabajando en esta oficina ....

I have been working here.....

So this is future progressive, you need to conjugate the verb llevar in future tense.

Would you like to try yourself?

Heidi, I've become really familiar with the llevar + gerund construction ever since I started talking with people from Spain. My question is can I use the future perfect? Does llevar just sound more natural but both are still correct? - bafalck, Aug 4, 2011

Oh, I was unaware of the llevar + gerund construction! I'll give it a shot: "Después del domingo, él llevará tres años trabajando." or "Después del domingo, él llevará trabajando por tres años." Correct? - MitchellSalad, Aug 4, 2011

Answer 2

Oops! time to go to bed. That construction was totally wrong!.

naaaa, nada que hacer quen, look at my post and try again;) - 00494d19, Aug 4, 2011

Yes, I agree. I don't know what tense I was building the pp. and the gerundio. - 0074b507, Aug 4, 2011