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German Future Tense (das Futur 2) / A2-B1

German Future II


We use Futur II to refer to actions that will take place in the future and that will have been completed in the future. We form sentences with the conjugated form of the auxiliary verb werden (will), the past form of the verb, and the unconjugated form of the auxiliary haben (tı have) or sein (to be).

Say you are driving with your friends on a road trip. You look at your GPS and realize that where you are going is 1,000 kilometers away. You can say this to your friends in a way that uses the future perfect.

The future perfect is a bit unusual, as it combines both past and future into one expression. The future perfect tense denotes the assumption that an action will have been completed by the time of speaking, or by a particular point in the future. It is the same as the future perfect in English.

Let's remember the conjugation of verb werden.

   Singular  Plural
 1st person  Ich werde  Wir werden
 2nd person   Du wirst  Ihr werdet
 3rd person  er/sie/es wird  sie/Sie werden

    Examples:

        - Morgen werde ich schon mit ihm gesprochen haben.
                (I will have talked with him by tomorrow.)
        - Bald wird sie es geschaft haben.
                (Soon, she will have made it.)
        - Heute in einem Jahr werden wir schon unseren Urlaub in Australien verbrach haben.
                (A year from today we will already have had our vacation in Australia.)
        - In zwei Wochen werden wir die Prüfungen geschrieben haben.
                (In two weeks we will have written the tests.)

You can also use the Futur II in order to express the assumption that an action of the past has been completed. In such statements, the past has to be stressed by using adverbs that refer to the past, like: gestern (yesterday), vor zwei Wochen (two weeks ago), vergangenes Jahr (last year), etc.

    Examples:

        - Sie wird gestern in München angekommen sein.
                (She will have arrived in Munich yesterday.)
        - Wahrscheinlich ist sie gestern in München angekommen.
                (Probably she arrived in Munich yesterday.)
        - Er wird ihr das Geschenk vor einer Woche gegeben haben.
                (He will have given her the present a week ago.)
        - Wahrscheinlich hat er ihr das Geschenk vor einer Woche gegeben.
                (Probably he has given her the present a week ago.)

The Futur II can also be replaced by the Perfekt, when the future is displayed with adverbs of time, for example, morgen (tomorrow), bald (soon), nachher (later), etc.

    Examples:

        - Morgen um diese Zeit werden wir in Köln angekommen sein.
                (At this time tomorrow we will have arrived in Cologne.)
        - Bald werden wir es geschaft haben.
                (Soon we will have made it.)
        - In einer Stunde werden wir unser Ziel erreicht haben.
                (In one hour we will have reached our aim.)

        - Warum baut Matthias sein Fahrrad auseinander?
        - Er wird wohl gestürzt sein oder eine Panne gehabt haben.
        - Oh nein, wir wollen in einer Stunde eine Radtour machen.
        - Keine Angst Bis dahin wird er das Fahrrad repariert haben.




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