werden
to become, will
The 5th most frequent word in German, appearing about 17,404 times per million words.
- Type
- verb
- Frequency rank
- #5
- Per million words
- 17,404
In a sentence
Es wird kalt.It is getting cold.
Conjugation
Present tense of werden, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.
| ich — I | werde |
|---|---|
| du — you | wirst |
| er/sie/es — he / she / it | wird |
| wir — we | werden |
| ihr — you (plural) | werdet |
| sie — they | werden |
| Perfect | ist geworden |
| Simple past | wurde |
Forms its perfect tense with sein.
werden is a stem-changing verb: the vowel shifts in the du and er/sie/es forms. Those two are worth memorising separately.
Related words
Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:
- sein to be
- haben to have
- können can, to be able to
- geben to give
- sollen should, ought to
- müssen must, to have to
Practise this word
werden is in the free trainer along with the rest of the list — flashcards, multiple choice, listening practice and spaced review. No account needed.