Future passive (wird ... werden)

The Future Passive

To talk about grand plans for the future—like building a massive offshore wind farm—you will often need the Future Passive (Futur I Passiv). This lets you express what will be done to something, without necessarily mentioning who will do it.

To form the future passive, combine the rules for the future tense and the passive voice. The result is a structure that uses the verb werden twice:

• The conjugated auxiliary verb werden takes Position 2.
• The action is described at the very end of the sentence by the Past Participle followed immediately by the passive infinitive werden.

Just like in other tenses, you must conjugate the first werden to match the subject receiving the action. If the subject is plural, use werden in Position 2.

Expanding the Sentence

Even when you add complex information—like the purpose of the construction or specific tools being used—the grammatical frame remains intact. The conjugated werden stays in Position 2 (or immediately follows an introductory clause), and the past participle + werden cluster anchors the end.

Subordinate Clauses

What happens in a subordinate clause (such as one starting with weshalb or dass)? As usual, the conjugated verb gets kicked to the end.

In the future passive, this means the conjugated wird or werden moves to the very end of the sentence, lining up after the past participle and the infinitive werden. This creates a neat three-verb cluster: Past Participle + werden + wird/werden.