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Meet werden

Read how the verb is used, then write your own 10 sentences with it.

All 7 meanings

  1. (auxiliary, past participle geworden) will, to be going to, forms the future tense [with bare infinitive ‘do something’]
  2. (auxiliary, subjunctive) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs [with bare infinitive ‘do something’]
  3. (auxiliary, past participle worden) to be done; forms the passive voice [with past participle]
  4. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
  5. (see usage notes) for one to begin or come to feel or experience [with dative ‘for someone’ and predicate adjective ‘a certain state’]
  6. (copulative, colloquial) to be; to happen; to occur (in the future)
Forms

How werden changes

PronounPräsensPräteritum
ichwerdewurde
duwirstwurdest
er/sie/eswirdwurde
wirwerdenwurden
ihrwerdetwurdet
Siewerdenwurden

Partizip II geworden · Perfekt with sein

Three examples

  1. 1
    Es wird heute kalt.It is getting cold today.present: getting cold
  2. 2
    Er wurde letztes Jahr Arzt.He became a doctor last year.Präteritum: becoming something
  3. 3
    Ich glaube, dass wir morgen zu Hause bleiben werden.I think that we will stay at home tomorrow.future with werden
Verb family

Separable verbs built on werden

Add a prefix to werden and the meaning changes.

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