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Conveying the Future with Werden

The Imperative Mood

Subjunctive: Uses and Construction

Future Tense (Conveying the future with werden)

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I. Theory

Conveying the future tense in German is similar in its construction to English. Where English speakers use the auxiliary verb will, Germans use a conjugated form of werden + an infinitive. As with other tenses in German, the future can represent various nuanced forms found in English.

Ich werde sprechen.
I will speak.
or
I will be speaking.
or
I am going to speak.

Here, we see how werden is conjugated in the present tense:

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