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French: potential past future events
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1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan	Message 9 of 10 10 March 2015 at 12:06am \| IP Logged
	Based on the meaning, I think that also the best now sounds as others have noted, the conditionnel présent. This preserves the possibility of occurring in the future, or any moment after in the future but in the past, if that makes sense. This page on the conditionnel passé explains some uses of that tense, but from my own intuition, it cannot be used because it only gives the possibility of the future up to a certain point in the past. "percevrait", instead of including all of the future, with no maximum point (condtionnel présent). "aurait perçu" is the past form of "aura perçu", a future up until a certain point with limitation until that specific point. It is a bit complicated to explain properly, but it would be like the Swedish "jag skulle ha sett", it has the future up until a certain point whilst referring to the past. Likewise, "jag ska ha sett" refers to the present and future, but still has a limitation of a certain point in the future, meanwhile "jag skulle se" would include all of the future as possible, with no limitation on how far in the future, just like the conditionnel passé. 1 person has voted this message useful
schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5561 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch	Message 10 of 10 16 March 2015 at 8:35pm \| IP Logged
	Would "allait percevoir" or "allait avoir percu" be possible alternatives? 1 person has voted this message useful

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