Future Tense with Irregular Verbs
Because in the future tense you use werden plus an infinitive, the irregular verbs are very easy to use in the future tense. There's no stem change to remember. Remember that when you form the future tense of any verb, you conjugate werden and place the accompanying verb as an infinitive at the end of the sentence. That means you have to change any irregularity in the present tense back to the verb's infinitive form when restating a sentence in the future tense.
Table 14-2. Contrasting the Present and Future Tenses of Irregular Verbs
Exercise 14-2
Restate each future tense sentence in the present tense. For example:
Sie wird es verstehen. Sie versteht es
Die Kinder werden Deutsch lernen.
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Ich werde mit ihm sprechen.
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Helga wird oft an uns denken.
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Wirst du in Bremen wohnen?
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Erik wird nach Hause laufen.
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