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You/We/They will/shall buy. You/We/They will/shall be buying. Future Perfect Tense. He/She/It will/shall have bought or (rare, dialectal) boughten.
Conjugation English verb to buy
The present tense of “to buy” is “buys” (third person singular: he buys) or “buy” (everything else: I buy, you buy, we buy, they buy).
Perfect tenses
present perfect | |
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I | have bought |
you | have bought |
he, she, it | has bought |
we | have bought |
As you see, bought is the past tense and past participle of the verb buy—meaning to get something in exchange for money. We use bought with the past simple tense and with present perfect and past perfect tenses. (Past Tense)
To buy
Present Tense | I buy | they buy |
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Simple Past Tense | I bought | they bought |
Present Participle | I am buying | they are buying |
Past Participle | I/you/we/(s)he/it/they bought | — |
The present perfect simple usually focuses on the result of the activity in some way, and the present perfect continuous usually focuses on the activity itself in some way. Present perfect simple. Present perfect continuous. Focuses on the result.