will
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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.
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/wɪl/
Etimologia
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.
Cognato con olandese
willen
Cognato con tedesco
wollen
Cognato con francese
vouloir
Cognato con olandese
wil
Cognato con tedesco
Wille
Cognato con tedesco
willen
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