On your search for the meanings of German words, you have probably seen the words "wurden", "würden", "worden", "wirst" and even "wird".
These are all forms of the same verb, "werden".
One uses this verb in order to express the future, as well as the passive and Konjunktiv (subjunctive).
Today I will explain all of what you need to know about the verb "werden".
Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Werden: B1/B2 Video of the Week #46
If you use "werden" in the present tense, it is often translated as "to become".
On Monday I showed you how to conjugate "werden" in the present tense.
ich werde; du wirst; er, sie, es wird; wir werden; ihr werdet; sie, Sie werden
You use these forms of the verb in order to form the future, too.
In order to form the simple future, you use the second verb at the end of the sentence as an infinitive.
When I say "the simple future", I mean that something isn't happening right now, but will happen later.
Futur 1 is formed with just one form of "werden" and an infinitive.
I talked about that on Monday, too.
I will fly to Germany. Tomorrow I will eat pizza. You will be unbeatable.
If the first future is called "Futur 1", there must be at least "Futur 2" still.
You use the "Futur 2" in order to express a finished action in the future.
For example: Er wird schon gegessen haben. - He will have already eaten.
Wir werden müde gewesen sein. - We will have been tired.
In these sentence we use three verbs.
The verb "werden" is conjugated and placed in the second place in statements
and in position 2 or after the question word in a question.
At the end of the sentence we see a Partizip 2 and a helping verb.
The Partizip 2 is in front of the helping verb.
That is like a kind of leapfrog for verbs.
In case you are asking yourself why "werden", a Partizip 2 and an additional helping verb are being used, you need to know the following.
The verb "werden" expresses the future in Futur 2.
The German language has developed an affix, namely -t-
(example: holte, brachte, sagte).
For the future there is no such affix.
That's why we need "werden" as an expression of the future.
The Partizip 2 and the included helping verb express a finished action, as with the Perfekt and Plusquamperfekt.
All three verbs together express a finished action in the future.
We begin with only one verb in the present tense.
Er isst etwas. - He is eating something.
Er ist müde. - He is tired.
In Perfekt we use a helping verb, "haben" for verbs without movement and "sein" for verbs with movement.
The helping verb jumps into the sentence where the conjugated verb belongs.
The other verb becomes a past participle and jumps to the end of the sentence.
Er hat etwas gegessen. - He ate something.
Er ist müde gewesen. - He was tired.
In the Futur 2 we add in "werden"
and the helping verb jumps to the end of the sentence, so behind the Partizip 2 as an infinitive.
Er wird etwas gegessen haben. - He will have eaten something.
Er wird müde gewesen sein. - He will have been tired.
Now we are done with the tenses of "werden".
Unfortunately there is still something else that we need to know.
"Werden" is also used to form the passive.
The passive can be formed in every tense and also with modal verbs.
The passive is made up of two parts "werden" and a Partizip 2.
You conjugate "werden" in the desired tense.
I showed you already the forms in present.
Therefore I will begin with that in order to keep the examples simple.
Active: Der Mann isst den Apfel. - The man is eating the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel wird von dem Mann gegessen. - The apple is being eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau wirft den Ball. - The woman is throwing the ball.
Passive: Der Ball wird von der Frau geworfen. - The ball is being thrown by the woman.
In the Präteritum you conjugate "werden" so:
ich wurde; du wurdest; er, sie, es wurde; wir wurden; ihr wurdet; sie, Sie wurden
The example sentences are similar to the first ones.
Active: Der Mann aß den Apfel. - The man ate the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel wurde von dem Mann gegessen. - The apple was eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau warf den Ball. - The woman threw the ball.
Passive: Der Ball wurde von der Frau geworfen. - The ball was thrown by the woman.
In the Perfekt it becomes a bit more complicated.
Now we put the word "worden", which is also a form of "werden" at the end of the sentence behind the Partizip 2
and we conjugate the verb "sein" as a helping verb.
Active: Der Mann hat den Apfel gegessen. - The man ate the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel ist von dem Mann gegessen worden. - The apple was eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau hat den Ball geworfen. - The woman threw the ball.
Passive: Der Ball ist von der Frau geworfen worden. - The ball was thrown by the woman.
You can also form the Plusquamperfekt with the passive.
In order to do that you simply conjugate "sein" in the Präteritum and leave the other verbs as they were in the last example sentences.
Active: Der Mann hatte den Apfel gegessen. - The man had eaten the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel war von dem Mann gegessen worden. - The apple had been eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau hatte den Ball geworfen. - The woman had thrown the ball.
Passive: Der Ball war von der Frau geworfen worden. - The ball had been thrown by the woman.
The passive in Futur 1 and 2 is much simpler.
In Futur 1 we have two versions of "werden".
We conjugate the first one and the second is behind the Partizip 2 at the end of the sentence.
Active: Der Mann wird den Apfel essen. - The man will eat the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel wird von dem Mann gegessen werden. - The apple will be eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau wird den Ball werfen. - The woman will throw the ball.
Passive: Der Ball wird von der Frau geworfen werden. - The ball will be thrown by the woman.
In the Futur 2 we have "worden" again in the sentence.
It is between the Partizip 2 and the infinitive of "sein".
One conjugates "werden" as always in the Futur 2.
Active: Der Mann wird den Apfel gegessen haben. - The man will have eaten the apple.
Passive: Der Apfel wird von dem Mann gegessen worden sein. - The apple will have been eaten by the man.
Active: Die Frau wird den Ball geworfen haben. - The woman will have thrown the ball.
Passive: Der Ball wird von der Frau geworfen worden sein. - The ball will have been thrown by the woman.
These passive sentences become even more complicated if you add in a modal verb,
but I will leave these examples for today.
We still haven't talked about the Konjunktiv 2 and the Konjunktiv 2 must be explained.
In my opinion the Konjunktiv 2 is much simpler than the passive, because there aren't as many variations of it.
In the past with the Konjuntiv 2, you can't use "werden".
One uses "hätte" and "wäre" in order to express the past with the Konjunktiv 2.
There are two tenses with the Konjunktiv 2 in which you can use "werden", or more precisely "würde".
In order to form the present or future in the Konjunktiv 2 with "würden", you use one of these forms with an infinitive at the end of the sentence.
ich würde; du würdest; er, sie, es würde; wir würden; ihr würdet; sie, Sie würden
For example: Ich würde die Kekse essen. - I would eat the cookies.
Wir würden die Landkarte mitnehmen. - We would take the map along.
If you rewrite these sentences into the passive, they become:
Die Kekse würden von mir gegessen werden. - The cookies would be eaten by me.
Die Landkarte würde von uns mitgenommen werden. - The map would be brought by us.
It's that simple.
The verb "werden" is used in order to form the passive and to express the future.
The Konjunktiv 2 can also be formed with "werden". That wasn't so complicated.
The script of this video, a worksheet about "werden" and an MP3 of this video are on my Patreon page.
Until Monday. Bye.
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