Breakdown of Sie werden das Signal mit dem Funkgerät geschickt haben.
haben
to have
sie
they
schicken
to send
mit
with
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
werden
will (future auxiliary)
das Signal
the signal
das Funkgerät
the two-way radio
Questions & Answers about Sie werden das Signal mit dem Funkgerät geschickt haben.
Does this sentence actually refer to an action happening in the future?
Why are both geschickt and haben stacked at the very end of the sentence?
This is the standard word order for the Futur II. The conjugated verb werden sits in the second position, which kicks the rest of the verb phrase to the end. Down at the end, the past participle (geschickt) comes first, followed immediately by the infinitive of the helper verb (haben).
Could Sie at the beginning of the sentence mean "she"?
No, because of the verb conjugation. If it meant "she", the verb would be wird (Sie wird ... geschickt haben). Because the verb here is werden, Sie has to mean either "they" or the formal "you".
Why is it mit dem Funkgerät instead of das Funkgerät?
The preposition mit (with) always forces the noun that follows it into the dative case. Because Funkgerät is a neuter noun (das Funkgerät), its article changes to dem in the dative case.
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