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Das Futur I

The future tense with werden

Kartoffel · your teacher

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Ich möchte mehr Sport machen.Ich werde mehr Sport machen.

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1What & when

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Future: werden in , the at the end:

Before

Ich mache mehr Sport.

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werde takes , and machen goes to the end in its dictionary form.

„Ich werde mehr Sport machen.“ — I'm going to do more sport.

Kartoffel

First, what is it?

German has no future ending on the verb. It builds the future with the helper verb werden and the (the dictionary form, like machen). This is the : Ich werde mehr Sport machen (I will do more sport).

Kartoffel

And when do you need it? More often than you'd think:

Pläne & TräumeYou need it when you look ahead. You make a promise (), predict the weather () or make a resolution (). For a fixed plan with a time word, Germans usually just use the present:

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