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Para entonces, la gente habrá sentido el cambio.

Para entonces, la gente habrá sentido el cambio.
By then, people will have felt the change.
From Lesson 337:The future perfect tense (habré terminado)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Para entonces, la gente habrá sentido el cambio.

Why does the sentence use the singular habrá instead of the plural habrán when referring to people?
In Spanish, la gente (people) is a singular feminine noun. Even though it means a group of individuals, grammatically it acts like a single unit. Therefore, you must use the third-person singular form of the helper verb haber, which is habrá.
How do time markers like Para entonces work with the Future Perfect tense?
The Future Perfect is used to describe an action that will be completed before a certain point in the future. Time phrases starting with para (like para entonces meaning by then, or para el viernes meaning by Friday) set that future deadline, making them the most common companions for this tense.
Why do we use the preposition Para instead of Por in Para entonces?
We use para here because it points to a specific deadline or target time in the future. If you were to say por entonces, it would translate closer to around that time and is almost exclusively used to talk about vague periods in the past.
Sentir is a stem-changing verb in the present tense (yo siento). Why is the past participle just sentido?
Past participles in Spanish do not inherit the stem changes from the present tense. To form the past participle of sentir, you just follow the regular rule for -ir verbs: drop the ending and add -ido, resulting in sentido.

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