Purpose

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to correctly form the dedicated future tense using “werden” as the auxiliary, building directly on Part 3, Lesson 1.

Lesson Explanation

Building directly on Part 3, Lesson 1’s introduction of werden: the dedicated future tense is formed with a conjugated form of werden + an infinitive placed at the end of the sentence:

Ich werde nach Berlin fahren.   (I will travel to Berlin.)
Sie wird Ärztin werden.          (She will become a doctor.)

This structure follows the exact same word-order logic as modal verbs (Part 3, Lesson 6): werden takes the V2-governed second position, while the infinitive goes to the very end.

Recall directly from Part 4, Lesson 4: German very commonly uses the simpler present-tense-plus-time-expression construction instead of this dedicated future tense — this lesson’s construction is used specifically for genuine predictions, promises, or emphasis about the future, not for every casual future statement.

Practice Questions