German 路 Chapter 8 路 Lesson 8 路 Grammar primer
The future with werden
The present plus tomorrow does most of the job, but werden is the real future, and the verb the passive borrows too.
The short version
German talks about tomorrow in the present
When a time word already points forward, Germans use the plain present, not werden. Ich komme morgen is the normal way to say I am coming tomorrow; Ich werde morgen kommen sounds deliberate, like a promise. Keep werden for predictions, promises and guesses.
Ich komme morgen.
Er wird zu Hause sein is usually a guess
werden plus an infinitive often means probably, right now, rather than later. Er wird zu Hause sein is more often he is probably at home than he will be at home, and adding wohl makes the guess explicit. English does the same in that will be the postman.
Sie wird wohl m眉de sein.
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