will
Εννοια (English)
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- Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- To be able to, to have the capacity to.
- Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- To habitually do (a given action).
- To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.
- To wish, desire (something).
- To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
- Implying will go.
Synonyms
last will
emotion
want to
be going to
require
will-power
able to
draw up a will
human heart
I hope
intend to
I think
mental state
Testament
wish for
I fear
dying instructions
last request
testamentary letter
desire of doing
inclination of mind
mental resolve
letters testamentary
bulesis
ability
be about to
in a little while
it seems
near future
Συχνότητα
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/wɪl/
Ετυμολογία (English)
In summary
From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (“to want”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with Dutch willen, Low German willen, German wollen, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk vilja, Norwegian Bokmål ville, Latin velle (“wish”, verb), Latin volo, French vouloir, Italian volere, and Albanian vel (“to satisfy, be stuffed”). The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 3, below.
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