Another way to translate the future perfect would be “will have been opened”.

--Voragh

On 1/31/2017 6:19 PM, Brian Cote wrote:

So, my question 

is: can you use {leghpu'} if the event it's referring to (the event 

that brings the hypothetical into the historical) will happen far, 

far in the future? 

SuStel wrote:

If I understand what you're saying, then yes. wa'vatlh nem 'aplo' poSmoHlu' the container will be opened in one hundred years; wa'vatlh nem 'aplo' poSmoHlu'pu' the container is opened in one hundred years. The latter refers to a completed action; the former is explicitly not a completed action.