Dictionary
will
Meaning
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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.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɪl/
Cognate with Dutch
willen
Cognate with German
wollen
Cognate with Latin
velle
Cognate with Latin
volo
Cognate with French
vouloir
Cognate with Dutch
wil
Cognate with German
Wille
Cognate with German
willen
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