Word
Wer wird die Zukunft vorhersagen?
Meaning
Who will predict the future?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wer wird die Zukunft vorhersagen?
wer
who
die Zukunft
the future
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
werden
will (future auxiliary)
Questions & Answers about Wer wird die Zukunft vorhersagen?
Why is vorhersagen at the very end of the sentence?
In the German future tense (Futur I), the helper verb werden (here as wird) takes the second position, and the main action verb (vorhersagen) is pushed to the very end of the sentence in its basic infinitive form.
Why do we use wird after the question word Wer?
The question word Wer (Who) acts as the subject of the sentence and is treated as a third-person singular pronoun. Just like with er, sie, or es, you must use the third-person singular form of werden, which is wird.
vorhersagen is a separable verb. Why isn't it split up here?
You only split a separable verb when it is the conjugated verb in the sentence. Because this sentence is in the future tense, wird is the conjugated verb. This forces vorhersagen to stay in its full, unbroken infinitive form at the end.
How is the verb vorhersagen built?
It is made up of the prefix vorher (beforehand) and the verb sagen (to say). So literally, it means to say beforehand, which perfectly translates to predict.