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11.2.6
Future perfect tense
There is no difference between English and Dutch in the use of this tense
except for the tendency for Dutch to use zullen in a modal sense with no
connotation of the future, as illustrated by the following examples:
Dat zal in andere landen ook wel gedaan zijn.
That’s sure to have been done in other countries too.
Hij zal het zeker gedaan hebben.
He’s sure to have done it.
It is possible to use a perfect where semantically a future perfect is implied:
Tegen die tijd heb ik het wel gedaan (= zal ik het wel gedaan
hebben).
I will have done it by then.
11.2.7
Conditional tense
The conditional is used as in English except that the verb in the ‘if’ clause
of a conditional sentence, which in English is often in the imperfect (actually
an imperfect subjunctive), can be either a conditional or an imperfect in
Dutch.
Als je meer geld zou hebben (had), . . .
If you had more money, . . .
Als hij minder zou drinken (dronk), . . .
If he drank less, . . .
By using the conditional in such instances the Dutch are trying to compensate
for an historical simplification that has affected both English and Dutch,
i.e. the falling together of the imperfect subjunctive with the imperfect.
Compare:
Als ik rijk was (zou zijn) . . .
If I were rich . . .
The contracted form was (or had) can also replace the conditional in the
‘would’ clause, not just in the ‘if’ clause:
Als hij vroeger harder gewerkt had, dan zou hij nu rijk zijn =
Als hij vroeger harder gewerkt had, dan was hij nu rijk.
If he had worked harder earlier on, he’d now be rich.
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