Purpose

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to correctly conjugate the irregular verb “werden” (to become), and know its important dual role in German.

Lesson Explanation

Werden (to become) is genuinely irregular and among the most important German verbs due to its dual role:

ich werde          (I become)
du wirst           (you become)
er/sie/es wird     (he/she/it becomes)
wir werden         (we become)
ihr werdet         (you all become)
sie/Sie werden     (they become)

Used alone, werden means “to become”: Sie wird Ärztin. (She is becoming a doctor.) A genuinely important, forward-looking role: werden also serves as the auxiliary verb for forming the future tense — covered directly in Part 5, Lesson 6.

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