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等到返嚟嗰陣已經三日
  dang2 dou3 nei5 faan1 lai4 go2 zan6*2, keoi5 ji5 ging1 zau2 zo2 saam1 jat6 laa3   jyutping
By the time you return, he will have already been gone for three days.

(have been) is a perfective marker in a future tense sentence here.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

  Level: 3
等到你返嚟嗰陣﹐佢已經走咗三日喇。

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等到  dang2 dou3  deng3 dao4  -  wait until; waited until
 nei5  ni3  - you
返嚟  faan1 lai4 ; faan1 lei4    -  to return
嗰陣  go2 zan6    -  at that time
 keoi5  qu2  - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it
已經  ji5 ging1  yi3 jing1  -  already
 zau2  zou3  - run; walk
 zo2  zhu3 zuo5  - already
三日  saam1 jat6  san1 ri4  -  3rd day of the month
 laa3 laa1  la3 la1  - trumpet; lama; now
This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 5th Oct 2014 10:33
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