Breakdown of Appena si sarà ripreso, non avrà alcun rimorso.
essere
to be
non
not
avere
to have
appena
as soon as
alcuno
any (in negative contexts)
il rimorso
the remorse / the regret (feeling of guilt)
riprendersi
to recover (to bounce back, regain strength)
Questions & Answers about Appena si sarà ripreso, non avrà alcun rimorso.
Why does Italian use the future perfect (sarà ripreso) when the English translation just says 'has recovered'?
Italian is much stricter about the sequence of tenses than English. Because the recovery must happen before the main future action (non avrà), Italian requires the future perfect to logically show that order. English often relaxes this rule and uses the present perfect after time conjunctions like 'as soon as'.
If we added the modal potere to say 'As soon as he has been able to recover', how would the rules from the current lesson apply?
If you attach the reflexive pronoun to the end of the infinitive, the modal keeps its default auxiliary (avere), giving us: Appena avrà potuto riprendersi. If you instead put the reflexive pronoun before the conjugated verb, it forces the auxiliary to switch to essere, giving us: Appena si sarà potuto riprendere.
Why is the auxiliary sarà used here rather than avrà?
The verb here is riprendersi (to recover), which is a reflexive verb. In Italian, all reflexive and pronominal verbs require the auxiliary essere in compound tenses. Therefore, we use the future tense of essere (sarà) and make sure the past participle (ripreso) agrees in gender and number with the subject.
Why use alcun rimorso instead of nessun rimorso?
When a sentence is already made negative by the word non, you can use alcun (any) instead of nessun (no). Saying non avrà nessun rimorso is also perfectly correct and extremely common, but using alcun avoids the double negative and sounds slightly more refined. It drops its final '-o' here because rimorso starts with a single consonant, just like the indefinite article un.
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