The Future and Future Perfect Tenses

The future tense in German consists of WERDEN and the PRESENT ACTIVE INFINITIVE. Examples: WIR WERDEN SPIELEN - WE WILL PLAY, WIR WERDEN GEHEN - WE WILL GO

The future perfect tense in German consists of WERDEN and the PERFECT ACTIVE INFINITIVE. Examples: WIR WERDEN GESPIELT HABEN - WE WILL HAVE PLAYED, WIR WERDEN GEGANGEN SEIN - WE WILL HAVE GONE

What is a PRESENT ACTIVE INFINITIVE? It is the infinitive that we learned in Level 1 German, just with a fancier name.

What is a PERFECT ACTIVE INFINITIVE? TO HAVE PLAYED - GESPIELT HABEN and TO HAVE GONE - GEGANGEN SEIN are examples of perfect infinitives. They consist of the helping verb TO HAVE - HABEN or SEIN and a PAST PARTICIPLE.

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