Futur I - Learn German Future Tense

Hi, my name is Kian and welcome to this course. This course is all about German future tense. In particular, German future tense 1 or as we call it Futur 1 since we have two. In this course, I'll be talking about all the important points you have to know in order to master Futur 1. We'll be talking about the sentence structure. We'll be talking about the verb werden. And why werden by itself is not automatically the equivalent to will or going to. We'll be talking also about the conjugation of werden because that's very important. And all of this is followed by a range of examples. So you're really going to have the chance to practice throughout this course. Meaning, there will be a couple of sentences where you have to put in the correct form of the verb werden. Plus, you're going to have the option to build questions as well. Finally, the class project is all about writing your own sentences. A little bit about me. So my name is Kian and I've been teaching German since 2014. In 2020, I started tutoring online. And in 2021, I transitioned fully online. Since then, I've been teaching over 8,000 lessons. Plus, I started a very successful YouTube channel for children. And we're currently sitting at a little over 45,000 subscribers. So if you have any questions, please feel free to share it with the community. I'm so happy to help you. And I see you on the inside. Okay, welcome back. Let's take a look at the word werden. Werden. Werden is our auxiliary verb. Or as we call it in German, Hilfsverb. Now, it's very important for you to understand that werden by itself as a standalone verb does not mean will or going to. And this is where the confusion all the time happens. Most of the time, students start learning about werden while learning future tense. At a later stage, we have a couple of other things where we use werden. For example, passive, or the passive voice, where we also use werden. And this is where the confusion then happens because students just simply think about werden as a will or going to, which is wrong. I want you to understand that future tense needs two components in order to be built. One is werden, and the other one is the infinitive verb at the end of the sentence. Okay, one more time. Two components. Werden plus the infinitive of the verb at the end of the sentence. What means infinitive? It just plain and simply means the regular, unconjugated form of the verb that goes to the end of the sentence or the end of the question. It doesn't really matter. Okay, this is important. Werden also can be a standalone verb. For example, es wird kalt. It is getting cold. Er wird Vater. He is becoming a dad. And as I mentioned earlier, we can also use it for passive voice. But I'm not going to go into that right now as we want to focus on building future tense, Futur 1. Okay, let's recap one more time because that's very important. Werden is an auxiliary verb. In German, we have three auxiliary verbs. Drei Hilfsverben. Werden, haben, sein. This is very important. So haben and sein you of course know already. Haben and sein can be also standalone verbs. For example, ich habe einen Stift. Now as you probably know, haben and haben can be also used for past tense as well as sein, the perfect tense. So only because you use haben now in the sentence doesn't automatically mean that you build a past tense sentence, correct? And I want you to apply the same logic, the same principle to werden. Werden by itself does not mean automatically it's future tense. Werden plus the infinitive verb at the end of the sentence, both combined, make up the future tense, Futur 1. Okay? Sehr, sehr wichtig. I'll see you in the next lesson. Hi and welcome back. In this lesson, we'll be talking about conjugating the verb werden. Again, conjugating just simply means changing the verb according to the person. Ich, du, er, sie, es. So I'm gonna put it here on the screen and let's go over these together. Ich werde, du wirst, er, sie, es wird, wir werden, ihr werdet, sie und sie werden. Let's do it one more time, a little faster. Ich werde, du wirst, er, sie, es wird, wir werden, ihr werdet, sie, sie werden. Now, as you can see, werden is a so-called irregular verb. Why is that? The middle of the word or verb stem slightly changes. It doesn't follow the same spelling all the way through. Now, let's move on and build a couple of sentences. Ich werde nach Berlin fahren. Du wirst heute kochen. Er wird zur Schule gehen. And of course you can swap er and sie, the singular er and sie, with names. For example, Tim wird zur Schule gehen. Stephanie wird zur Schule gehen. Wir werden die Schuhe putzen. Ihr werdet Hausaufgaben machen. Sie werden nach Spanien fliegen. Let's build a couple of yes-no questions. Yes-no questions are simply questions that can be answered by responding with yes or no. Or, as we call it in German, so-called Ja-Nein Fragen. What you have to do here is simply put the verb werden in the beginning of the sentence or the question. Wirst du heute kochen? Werden wir heute schwimmen? Wird er nach Berlin fahren? Wird sie morgen einkaufen? Werden sie nach Spanien reisen? Let's build a couple of questions with question words. Wann wirst du kommen? Wo werden wir hinfahren? Warum wird er das machen? Wer wird mit mir zum Supermarkt gehen? Super! Und jetzt ist es Zeit, ein paar Sätze zu schreiben. Now it is your time to write a couple of sentences. I would recommend you build five regular sentences plus five questions and make it a mix of yes-and-no questions as well as questions with question words. Ja-und-nein Fragen und Fragen mit Fragewörtern wie zum Beispiel Warum? Wer? Wann? Wo? I'll see you in the next lesson. Hi and welcome back to the last exercise of this class. And here I'm going to show you a number of incomplete sentences that you then have to complete by simply using werden, the correct conjugated form of werden as well as by putting the remaining words in the correct order. So I'm going to read the sentence and then I'm going to give you a couple of seconds to complete the sentence. Let's go. Nächste Woche ihr schreibt einen Test. And here is the correct answer. Nächste Woche werdet ihr einen Test schreiben. Nummer zwei Du … waschen die Wäsche. Du wirst die Wäsche waschen. Nummer drei Im Sommer … ich fahre nach Italien. Im Sommer werde ich nach Italien fahren. Nummer vier Mein Vater … nicht arbeiten am Montag. The correct answer is Mein Vater wird am Montag nicht arbeiten. Nummer fünf Wir … mitbringen einen Kuchen. I'll give you a couple of seconds. Wir werden einen Kuchen mitbringen. Nummer sechs Das Picknick … am Sonntag stattfinden. Das Picknick wird am Sonntag stattfinden. A picnic is going to take place on Sunday. stattfinden to take place Nummer sieben Die Mechaniker … reparieren das Auto. Die Mechaniker werden das Auto reparieren. Nummer acht Hanna … gießen die Blumen. Hanna wird die Blumen gießen. Nummer neun Ich … den Text übersetzen. Ich werde den Text übersetzen. übersetzen to translate Nummer zehn Wir … werden am Wochenende eine Reise machen. And, how many correct sentences did you have? Feel free to write more sentences. And more questions. My advice, if you don't have a speaking body, if you don't live in Germany, write every day 10 to 20 sentences about a certain topic. While that seems to be quite boring, it helps a lot, especially if you can't practice speaking every day. Super! Das hast du gut gemacht. I'll see you in the next lesson. How do we actually use werden in German, especially when we talk every day? Alltagsdeutsch in our everyday language Do we need to use it? Not always. If there is a clear time expression, you don't need werden, unless you really want to emphasize on it. Again, you don't need it, you can use it. Let me give you an example. Ich werde am Samstag nach Berlin fahren. Here we use future tense werden as well as a time expression. Now, that's perfectly fine. It's grammatically correct, and you can use it, of course, when you converse. However, you don't necessarily have to, unless you really want to highlight, you really want to emphasize on something. Perhaps it's a business trip, it's a very important journey for you. Maybe you have planned it for a very long time. Then it's perfectly fine. But since we are already using the time expression am Samstag, which is clearly in the future, you don't need werden. Am Samstag fahre ich nach Berlin. Or you swap the first and third position around. Ich fahre am Samstag nach Berlin. Both ways mean the same thing. Okay? So that is very important. You don't necessarily need to use werden all the time. Unless you have a time expression, you don't necessarily need this. You want to emphasize on the action, whatever you're going to do, fine. Do it. Use it. Okay? So very important. You don't need to use all the time werden. Super. I'll see you in the next lesson. Let's talk about your class project. Your class project for this course is the following. Write five regular sentences in future tense by using the verb werden. In addition, write five questions and use a mix of yes and no questions, ja-nein-fragen, as well as questions with regular question words. For example, wann, wo, warum, wie. And then share it with the community here. I'm looking forward to read all of your sentences and questions. If you should have any questions, feel free to reach out. Super. Das hast du toll gemacht. Und wir sehen uns hoffentlich im nächsten Kurs wieder. Bis dann. Tschüss.