fueris

Fueris is a Latin verb form derived from the verb esse, meaning “to be.” It is the second person singular form and occurs in two different tenses and moods: the future perfect indicative and the perfect active subjunctive. In the future perfect, fueris conveys the sense of “you will have been,” and it is part of the standard conjugation fuero, fueris, fuerit, fuerimus, fueritis, fuerint. In the perfect active subjunctive, fueris expresses a completed action in a dependent clause, typically rendered as “that you may have been” or “that you would have been,” depending on context.

Morphology and ambiguity: The form fueris is derived from the perfect stem fu- combined with the second person singular ending -eris. Because the same spelling occurs in both the future perfect indicative and the perfect active subjunctive, context and accompanying verbs are required to determine the intended tense and mood.

Usage: The future perfect is used to describe an action that will be completed before a specified future time or event. It frequently appears in temporal and conditional clauses, especially in literary or classical Latin. The perfect active subjunctive appears in a variety of subordinate clauses after verbs of wishing, doubting, fearing, or in hypothetical or potential constructions, where a completed action is presented within a past or counterfactual frame.

Relationship to other forms: The full conjugation of esse in the relevant tenses includes fuero, fueris, fuerit, fuerimus, fueritis, fuerint (future perfect indicative) and fuerim, fueris, fuerit, fuerimus, fueritis, fuerint (perfect active subjunctive). Fueris is thus one form with multiple possible readings, determined by grammatical context.