German to Yoruba: future meaning is not always written as werde
A German plan may use present-tense wording
German can use a present-tense clause with a future time expression to describe a plan. Morgen komme ich concerns tomorrow even though komme has present form. Yoruba Yé Mi’s future lesson presents máa before the verb with different pronoun types. A translation must first establish the German event’s time rather than search only for a visible form of werden before considering a future construction.
Compare the original German statements Ich komme morgen and Ich werde morgen kommen. In an ordinary planning exchange, both can concern the same future arrival. A target translation should not turn the first into an arrival happening now merely because the German verb has present morphology. The explicit tomorrow expression is stronger evidence about the scheduled event than a word-by-word tense label attached to komme.
Pronoun length does not supply a different future event
The University of Texas lesson illustrates future máa with both longer emphatic pronouns and shorter regular pronouns. These are alternative pronominal patterns around the future construction, not separate future times. A German sentence does not require an additional participant merely because a Yoruba version uses a longer personal form.
This is especially relevant when a German message contrasts who will attend: I will come, but my colleague will not. The contrast between the two participants must survive, while the target can select a suitable pronoun pattern for its expression. In a plain schedule entry without such a contrast, the same longer form should not automatically be interpreted as a correction or an accusation. The cited introductory lesson demonstrates the available pronoun forms in the future construction; the full conversation still determines the intended emphasis.
A negative prediction needs its own complete construction
The lesson sets affirmative future máa patterns beside negative patterns with kò nì í rather than merely placing a negative word anywhere in the affirmative sequence. A German statement such as Ich werde nicht kommen denies the future arrival. Its Yoruba rendering must preserve that negative prediction, not become an unrelated present negative or a prohibition addressed to someone else.
German nicht can also have a narrower contrastive scope, as in saying that the speaker will come tomorrow rather than today. That is different from denying the arrival altogether. Before choosing the Yoruba negative construction, establish what the German source denies: the event, a proposed date, or another detail. A schedule correction may retain the positive arrival while changing its day. A cancellation denies the arrival within the relevant time frame. Treating every German occurrence of nicht as a cancelled future event would confuse those two messages. The useful sequence is to recover the planned event, its time and the scope of any denial, then express those together in the Yoruba construction.
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