Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (transitive) to want, desire
  2. (modal) to want to, will, be willing to
  3. to want to go somewhere (cf. English want in)
  4. (conditional, past) to wish, would like, would (as in dated English I would that)

Frequenz

A1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈʋɪl.ə(n)/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle Dutch willen, from Old Dutch willen, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. The variant past forms with ou go back to early Middle Dutch wolde(n), following the regular shift old, olt > oud, out.

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