Breakdown of Ohne das Funkgerät wird er das geschickte Signal nicht gehört haben.
er
he
haben
to have
nicht
not
hören
to hear / to listen
schicken
to send
ohne
without
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 Ohne das Funkgerät wird er das geschickte Signal nicht gehört haben.
Does wird ... gehört haben mean this action will happen in the future?
It can, but in this context, it expresses a strong assumption about the past. This is a very common use of the Futur II (Future Perfect) in German to express probability, meaning he probably did not hear it.
Why are there three verbs in this sentence (wird, gehört, haben), and why are two at the end?
This is the standard structure for the Futur II. The conjugated helper verb werden (wird) takes the second position. The past participle (gehört) and the infinitive auxiliary verb (haben) are pushed together to the very end of the clause.
Why is there an -e on the end of geschickte?
The past participle geschickt (sent) is acting as an adjective here to describe the Signal. Because it comes immediately after the definite article das, it requires the weak adjective ending -e for the accusative neuter case.
Why is it das Funkgerät and not dative after the preposition ohne?
The preposition ohne is one of the specific prepositions that strictly always requires the accusative case. Since Funkgerät is a neuter noun, its accusative article remains das.
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