The Future Tense

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Conjugation of the Verb Werden

Most of the time, Germans use the present tense to mean the future tense. But where this is ambiguous, they use the verb werden instead to indicate the future tense. For instance: Ich werde es tun. In this table, I've included the English translations of werden when it's being used as an auxiliary verb to form the future. It can, however, also be used as an auxiliary verb to form the passive (in which case you'd translate it as I am, you are etc.) or as a main verb meaning to become or a related verb (in which case the translation would be I become, you become etc., depending on whether become or one of the related verbs was more appropriate)

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