Oh man Heidi, we love Frankfurt!
We have done so much and there's so much more to do.
Yeah, we'd love to tell our audience all about the stuff we have coming up.
It's going to be a jam-packed itinerary.
Don't worry.
There's a future tense that can help us with that.
You use the verb 'werden', which on its own translates to to become in English, but it helps us from the future tense.
Also, when forming sentences, using 'werden', the infinitive form of the verb goes at the end of the sentence.
Nice.
Well, first of all, Malik and I are planning to venture out and try some local food.
Yeah. Yeah, we heard there´s something called 'Flammkuchen', which is like a tart with a cream base, bacon bits and onion.We'd love to try one of those.
Yeah, I love those.
Well, to say that we will eat 'Flammkuchen', we would use 'werden' plus the infinitive.
So, our infinitive here is 'essen'.
Also, we would use the infinitive form of 'werden' in the we form.
So, here our sentence would be: 'Wir werden zusammen Flammkuchen essen.'
Oh!
And what are the forms for other people?
The other persons, including we, here we would have the following:Ich werde, Du wirst, Er/Sie/Es wird,Wir werden, Ihr werdet, Sie/sie werden.
Note how our stem 'werd' changes in the Du/Er/Sie/Es form.
Interesting.
I'm going to watch a football match later.
How would I say that?
Easy, you would use 'werden' in I form, as well as the infinitive of watching, which is 'anschauen'.
So you would say: 'Ich werde mir das Fu(ss)ballspiel anschauen.'
Perfect!
While I'm doing that, Malik is planning to head to the city centre.
How would we tell our audience that?
'Er wird das Stadtzentrum besuchen.'
Correct!
Ah, she just got lucky.
'Du wirst ein Glückspilz sein.'
Huh?
You will be one lucky person!
Although 'Glückspilz' literally translates to lucky mushroom.
Well, it looks like there isn't mush-room to learn more!
We have some vlogging to do! Let's go!
Yeah, let's switch up locations.
Frankfurt has been a blast so far, hasn't it, Malik?
Yeah, but there's so much left to do!
Go on, guys.
What are you planning to do?
We want to eat that German tart thing.
In German?
Wir werden zusammen essen…German tart thing?
Close. Close. Remember the infinitive 'essen' goes to the end of the sentence and the German tart thing is 'Flammkuchen'.
Ah! 'Wir werden zusammen Flammkuchen essen.'
Correct!
'Wir werden zusammen Flammkuchen essen.'
I'm planning to watch the footy later!
Auf Deutsch?
'Ich werde Fußball schauen.'
Fast! 'Ich werde mir das Fußballspiel anschauen.'
It's the football match you're watching. 'Ich werde mir das Fußballspiel anschauen.'
Hopefully you guys get lucky and win!
Frankfurt hat uns bis jetzt gut gefallen.
Ja, aber es gibt noch mehr zu tun!
Wir werden zusammen Flammkuchen essen.
Und was machst du danach, Tina?
Ich werde mir das Fußballspiel anschauen.
Cool!
Und er wird das Stadtzentrum besuchen.
Hoffentlich wird deine Mannschaft gewinnen!
Du wirst ein Glückspilz sein.
Mmm, Pilze.
Okay Leute, bis später!
In this episode Tina and Malik would like to learn how to talk and vlog about their upcoming plans in Frankfurt.
Heidi teaches them how to use the future tense with the verb werden.
Excited about their future plans, Tina and Malik switch locations and successfully integrate what they've learned into their vlog.
This short film is from the BBC Teach series German Grammar and Vocabulary.
Key vocabulary used in the episode:
| Part of Speech | German | English equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| v | werden | (to) become / becoming. However, when used as the auxiliary for the future tense, it means 'will' - I will (eat), you will (play) etc. |
| v | essen | to eat / eating |
| ich werde | …essen. I will eat | |
| du wirst | …essen. You will eat | |
| er/sie/es wird | …essen. He/she/it will eat | |
| wir werden | …essen. We will eat | |
| ihr werdet | …essen… You (pl, familiar) will eat | |
| Sie/sie werden | …essen… You (formal) / they will eat | |
| v | (sich) anschauen | (to) look at, watch / looking at, watching |
| n (nt) | Fußballspiel | football game, match |
| n (m) | Kuchen | cake |
| n (m) | Flammkuchen | bacon and onion tart, German pizza |
| v | besuchen | to visit / visiting |
| adv | zusammen | together |
| n (nt) | Stadtzentrum | town centre, city centre |
| prep | bis | until, till, up to, by |
| bis jetzt | until now | |
| bis später | until later (most often used as an equivalent to ‘see you later’ when leaving someone) | |
| v | gefallen | (to) please / pleasing |
| sich freuen (auf) | (to) please, make happy / pleasing, making happy; (to) be happy, pleased / being happy, pleased; (to) look forward to + noun / looking forward to + noun | |
| adv | danach | afterwards, after that |
| adv | hoffentlich | hopefully |
| n (m) | (du) Glückspilz | lucky you (colloquial) |
| n (f) | Mannschaft | team |
| v | gewinnen | to win / winning |
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