werden.
will, to be going to, forms the future tense
Meaning & usage
will, to be going to, forms the future tense
Ich werde nach Hause gehen.
would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs
Ich würde gerne tanzen.
to be done; forms the passive voice
Das Buch wird gerade gelesen.
Ich wurde in Europa geboren.
to become; to get; to grow; to turn
Es wird heißer.
for one to begin or come to feel or experience
Wird dir kalt?
Den Kindern wird langweilig.
to be; to happen; to occur (in the future)
Wir werden zusammen glücklich.
Was wird aus mir?
to be acceptable; to function correctly; to have the desired result or effect
Das wird so nichts.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German wërden, from Old High German wërdan, from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną. Cognate with Dutch worden, obsolete English worth, Swedish varda, Norwegian Nynorsk verta, and also with Latin vertō (“to turn”). The use as a passive auxiliary is old and found throughout West Germanic, but the use as a future auxiliary is a Middle High German innovation. It originated in inchoative constructions with the present participle: er wirt lachende (“he starts laughing, is about to laugh, will laugh”). Since the 14th century, the participle began to be replaced with the infinitive, probably by analogy with the older future auxiliaries wollen (“will”) and sollen (“shall”). The last two have been displaced by werden in Modern German but survive dialectally (as future auxiliaries).
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